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5 days ago · The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) was enacted in 1952. Although frequently amended, the Act still forms the basic structure of immigration law in the United States. Prior to enactment of the INA, immigration law was governed by a variety of statutes but they were not consolidated in one location. Also known as the McCarran-Walter Act ...
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2 days ago · It suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization as American citizens. The law was renewed in 1892 for another ten years, and in 1902 Chinese immigration was permanently banned. Chinese immigrants did not become eligible for citizenship until 1943. All vocabulary from dictionary.com
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6 days ago · The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
2 days ago · ^Id. According to the court, the government has not included spousal exceptions in its historical practice of regulating immigration, thus “the Colindreses [could] not show that the Government’s visa denial burdened Mrs. Colindres’s fundamental rights,” and “their suit [did] not fall within the constitutional-rights exception to the consular-nonreviewability doctrine.”
1 day ago · The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 now prohibits racial and gender discrimination in naturalization. [8] During the period when only "white" people could be naturalized, many court decisions were required to define which ethnic groups were included in this term.
5 days ago · Immigration: Primary Source Collections Online Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the U.S., 1789-1930 8,000+ historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that document voluntary immigration to the U.S., from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
5 days ago · Chinese immigrants secured naturalization rights with the end of Chinese exclusion in 1943 (Act of 17 December 1943, 57 Stat. 600); most Asian immigrants were prevented by U.S. law from becoming U.S. citizens until 1952 (Act of 27 June 1952, 66 Stat. 163).
