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Long title. An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization, and for other purposes. Enacted by. the 101st United States Congress.
The Immigration Act of 1990 revised existing immigration laws to increase the number of legal immigrants, introduce the diversity visa lottery, and create the H-1B visa program. It also provided temporary protection for asylum seekers and labor market information for employment-based immigrants.
Mar 4, 2009 · To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization, and for other purposes.
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Immigration Act of 1990 - Title I: Immigrants - Subtitle A: Worldwide and Per Country Levels - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) to set a permanent annual worldwide level of immigration, to begin in FY 1995, with a transition level for FY 1992 through 1994.
Background. The Immigration Act of 1990 was introduced as S 358 in the U.S. Senate by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) on February 7, 1989. Its stated purpose was to "change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization."
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ago, in November 1990, when Congress enacted the Immigration Act of 1990. In signing the bill, President George H.W. Bush called it the most comprehensive revision to U.S. immigra-tion law in 66 years.1 This issue brief addresses what the 1990 Act did and did not accom-plish.
The law, which remains the framework for today's legal immigration, attempted to create a selection system that would meet the future needs of the economy by moving away from a near-total focus on family-based immigration and toward admission of more immigrants based on their skills and education.
