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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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Summary. This was a significant revision of existing immigration laws, which greatly increased the number of people who could legally immigrate to the United States, and introduced provisions to facilitate the entry of specific groups for specialized work. The new law raised the ceiling on regular immigration (i.e. excluding.
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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 was passed by Congress in 1990 and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush (R) on November 29, 1990. 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 ." The law increased annual limits on ...
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.
this Act, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is ex-pressed as an amendment to or repeal of a provision, the reference shall be deemed to be made to the Immigration and Nationality Act. (c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; references in Act; table of contents. TITLE I—IMMIGRANTS
