Where is the Statue of Liberty?

Why this is the answer

Liberty Island and New York Harbor are the two answers printed on the official list, and a bracketed note adds three more that USCIS also takes: New Jersey, near New York City, and on the Hudson River. The parentheses matter too. Because "Harbor" and "River" sit inside them, "New York" or "the Hudson" on their own are enough. Every one of these describes the same small place, a 12-acre island, from a little farther away, so pick whichever you can say most clearly and stop there. The statue was a present from France, offered as a sign of friendship between the two nations. The French artist Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi made it, and it was dedicated on October 28, 1886, which was 110 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. President Grover Cleveland accepted it on behalf of the American people. Look closely and the meaning is built into the figure: a woman escaping the chains of tyranny, a torch symbolizing liberty in her right hand, and in her left a tablet marked July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration was adopted. Its role as a symbol of immigration came from its neighbor. Ellis Island, an immigration station in the same harbor, began receiving immigrants on January 1, 1892, and over the following 62 years more than 12 million people entered the country through it. For many of them, the statue was the first thing they saw of their new home. On the other coast, Angel Island processed close to a million immigrants who crossed the Pacific between 1910 and 1940. The statue and Ellis Island are now both National Historic Sites. That closeness can cause a slip: "Ellis Island" is not one of the accepted answers, even though it sits a short distance away. Neither is Washington, D.C., however many other national landmarks you may picture there.