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The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s)... of good character". This eliminated ambiguity on how to treat newcomers, given ...
Naturalization. An Act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization. (Naturalization Act of 1790) Sess. 2, ch. 3 1 Stat. 103: 4: March 26, 1790: Appropriations for the Support of Government. An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Sess. 2, ch. 4 1 Stat. 104: 5: April 2, 1790
Amendments made in 1884 tightened the provisions that allowed previous immigrants to leave and return, and clarified that the law applied to ethnic Chinese regardless of their country of origin. The act was renewed in 1892 by the Geary Act for another ten years, and in 1902 with no terminal date. It was repealed in 1943, although large scale ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Many acts of Congress and executive actions relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United ...
The Naturalization Act of 1790 was the first federal law to govern the naturalization process in the United States; restricting naturalization to white immigrants. [4] Several additional Naturalization Acts modified the terms of naturalization in the 1790s and 1800s.
The 1795 Act continued the 1790 Act limitation of naturalization being available only to "free white person[s]." The main change was the increase in the period of required residence in the United States before an alien can be naturalized from two to five years, and the introduction of the Declaration of Intention requirement, or "first papers", which required to be filed at least three years ...
1790. The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows free White persons born outside of the United States to become citizens. However, since each state set its own requirements for voting, this Act (and its successor Naturalization Act of 1795) did not automatically grant these naturalized citizens the right to vote.
Naturalization Act 1870; United States. Naturalization Act of 1790; Naturalization Act of 1795; Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts; Naturalization Acts of 1804 and 1855, concerning birthright citizenship in the United States; Naturalization Act of 1870; Naturalization Act of 1906; See also. Naturalization Law of 1802