An Act to Encourage Immigration (Pub. L. 38–246, H.R. 411, 13 Stat. 385, enacted July 4, 1864) was a federal law passed by the 38th United States Congress...

regulations on immigration, such as the Immigration Act of 1891. Prior to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1882, the United States Congress had passed...

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History of immigration to the United States History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States Illegal immigration to the United...

the guest worker immigration encouraged in other advanced industrial economies such as Germany, Japan was for the greater part able to rely on internal...

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers...

ship's captain. In the late 1800s, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...

Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant...

health in Australia Immigration to New Zealand Mental health and immigration detention Multiculturalism in Australia Post war immigration to Australia Visa...

defendants to immigration hearings. On June 17, 2025, Lander was arrested and handcuffed by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at an immigration...

domestic immigration law and policy went through significant changes, most notably with the Immigration Act, 1976, and the current Immigration and Refugee...

Immigration reduction refers to a government and social policy in the United States that advocates a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into...

of the Head Tax in 1944, the Immigration Act 1919 permitted the Minister of Immigration to arbitrarily reject immigration applications where he or she...

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers and produces analyses to further...

The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 was an act of the Parliament of Canada that placed a head tax of $50 (equivalent to $1,749 in 2023) on all Chinese immigrants...

and voting behavior. Due to its history the United States can be described as an immigration country. American immigration history can be viewed in four...

other immigration-related bills, including the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611) and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007...

to establish the colonial settlement of Charles Town. In 1671, he became surveyor general. He appears in the earliest record of Irish immigration to the...

to prohibit contract labor. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in the 1880s to end Chinese immigration. 1864 Immigration Act — “An act to encourage...

The Immigration Act, 1869 (also written as the Immigration Act of 1869; assented 22 June 1869) was the first immigration act passed by the Government of...

Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve...

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866...

Canadian legal system, both federal and provincial, as it relates to immigration: An Act to Regulate the Carrying of Passengers in Merchant Vessels (1828)...

regulates immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States. The United States Congress has authority over immigration policy in the...

Illegal immigration, or unauthorized immigration, occurs when foreign nationals, known as aliens, violate US immigration laws by entering the United States...

Expatriation Act of 1907. (It is also known as the Married Women's Citizenship Act or the Women's Citizenship Act). In theory the law was designed to grant women...

Chinese immigration would take place from 1858 to 1923 and 1947 to the present day, reflecting changes in the Canadian government's immigration policy...

1957, domestic immigration law and policy went through major changes, most notably with the Immigration Act 1959/63. Malaysian immigration policies are...

Nationality Act of 1940 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 History of Asian American immigration History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization...

immigrate to a country without having official permission to do so. Opposition to immigration ranges from calls for various immigration reforms, to proposals...