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AN ACT. To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 176; 8 U.S.C. 1151) be amended to read as follows:
In 1952 Congress passed the omnibus Immigration and. Naturalization. Act, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act. In typical Cold War language, McCarran described the law as a necessary weapon to preserve “this Nation, the last hope of Western Civilization.”.
Jul 19, 2022 · The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) groups together all the immigration laws of the United States, which regulate the entry of people from foreign countries into the U.S., for a temporary visit or to reside permanently. Immigration laws can be complicated and can change at any time. To get specific answers to your questions, talk to an ...
Jun 22, 2018 · U.S. immigration policy is governed largely by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which was first codified in 1952 and has been amended significantly several times since. At a fundamental level, U.S. immigration policy can be viewed as two sides of a coin. One side
Sep 28, 2015 · Roughly 2.7 million people were given legal status under the law’s general legalization or its special program for farmworkers. The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the number of visas for legal immigrants coming for family and employment reasons and created a new category of visas for “diversity immigrants.”.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 ( Pub. L. 82–414, 66 Stat. 163, enacted June 27, 1952 ), also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code ( 8 U.S.C. ch. 12 ), governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States. [8] It came into effect on June 27, 1952.
An article examining the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on its 50 th anniversary, Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States A brief that examines the Immigration Act of 1990, which created the employment-based preferences, The Immigration Act of 1990: Unfinished Business a Quarter ...
