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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 ...
Total immigration in the decade of 1931 to 1940 was 528,000 averaging less than 53,000 a year. The Chinese exclusion laws were repealed in 1943. The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 ended discrimination against Filipino Americans and Indian Americans, who were accorded the right to naturalization, and allowed a quota of 100 immigrants per year.
A Form I-512L, Authorization for Parole of an Alien Into the United States (an Advance Parole form), issued to a DACA recipient in 2014, permitting a United States Customs and Border Protection officer to allow the named foreign national to enter the United States under the parole authority found in Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(d ...
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA or IIRIRA), [2] [3] was a law enacted as division C of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, made major changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). IIRAIRA's changes became effective on April 1, 1997.
It would have provided six-year work visas for people not legally in the U.S. and a chance for people not legally in the country to become legal residents after having paid fines and passed ...
The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 made immigrants from India and the Philippines eligible for citizenship, though it capped entry at 100 immigrants per country per year. [10] The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed to create a unified code of United States immigration law, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 repealed the ...
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 25, 1994 The Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 ( INTCA or H.R. 783 ), Pub. L. 103–416 , 108 Stat. 4305 , enacted October 25, 1994 , was an act by the United States Congress "to amend title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act to make changes in the laws ...
The Text of the Act (PDF) Archived 2019-05-08 at the Wayback Machine; UDayton.edu Timeline of Asian Pacific Americans and Immigration Law; AILF.org Closed Borders and Mass Deportations: The Lessons of the Barred Zone Act; PBS.org Text of the Act describing the limits of the Asiatic Barred Zone; Helen F. Eckerson, "Immigration and National Origins"