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Jul 19, 2019 · Nationality Act of 1940. On October 14, 1940, and subsequent to the enactment of former section 451 et seq. of this title, Congress passed the Nationality Act of 1940 [former section 501 et seq. of this title] for the purpose of consolidating and restating the laws of the United States upon citizenship, naturalization and expatriation.
It revised the 1924 system to allow for national quotas at a rate of one-sixth of one percent of each nationality’s population in the United States in 1920. As a result, 85 percent of the 154,277 visas available annually were allotted to individuals of northern and western European lineage. The Act continued the practice of not including ...
tion 244(a)(3) of the Immigration and Na-tionality Act [8 U.S.C. 1254(a)(3)] (as in ef-fect before the title III–A effective date in section 309 of the Illegal Immigration Re-form and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996).1 (iv) status as a spouse or child of a United States citizen pursuant to clause (i) of section 204(a)(1)(A) of such Act [8
Specifies that the costs of implementing Sec. 235B and Sec. 240D of the Immigration and Nationality Act as established by this Act are appropriated by Congress and not subject to the collection of fees at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Sec. 3146. Border reforms.
Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act’s political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial. The 1965 Act was groundbreaking in eliminating of the white America immigration policy in place since 1790, ending Asian exclusion ...
Extent. 164. Short title. An Act to make provision about nationality, immigration and asylum; to create offences in connection with international traffic in prostitution; to make provision about international projects connected with migration; and for connected purposes.
Immigration and Nationality Act. The Immigration and Nationality Act, or INA, was created in 1952. Before the INA, a variety of statutes governed immigration law but were not organized in one location. The McCarran-Walter bill of 1952, Public Law No. 82-414, collected and codified many existing provisions and reorganized the structure of ...
