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    The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a landmark federal law...
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    The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–139...
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  • Immigration Act, 1952 The Immigration Act, 1976 The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002 The Immigration Ordinance 1972 The Immigration Act 1959/63...
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    legislation consolidated various immigration laws into a single text. Officially titled the Immigration and Nationality Act, it is often referred to as the...
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    The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President...
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    1917 act governed immigration policy until it was amended by the Immigration Act of 1924; both acts were revised by the Immigration and Nationality Act of...
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    Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch...
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    Employment-based immigration was divided amongst five occupational categories in the 1990 Immigration Act (the 1965 Act had only two). The Act provided 140...
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    The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act seeks to deter unlawful migration, particularly...
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    The Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning immigration and nearly entirely remaking the field of British...
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    Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers...
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  • Immigration Restriction Act may refer to: Immigration Restriction Act 1901 in Australia Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 (also known as the National...
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    The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (Cth) was an Act of the Parliament of Australia which limited immigration to Australia and formed the basis of the...
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  • and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was dissolved by the Homeland Security Act of 2002...
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  • 1965 Immigration Act of 1990 List of United States immigration legislation Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013...
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    government to discourage Chinese immigration, the Chinese Immigration Act was passed. It went into effect on 1 July 1923. The Act banned immigrants of Chinese...
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  • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; French: Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada) is the department of the Government of Canada...
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    the original on August 5, 2020. "Historical Timeline – Immigration – ProCon.org". Immigration. Retrieved November 25, 2022. Hymowitz; Weissman (1975)...
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    implicitly racist immigration legislation after the abolition of the Head Tax in 1944, the Immigration Act 1919 permitted the Minister of Immigration to arbitrarily...
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    captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...
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  • relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality...
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    The Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, was a law of the United States regulating immigration. It codified previous immigration...
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    The Immigration Act of 1891, also known as the 1891 Immigration Act, was a modification of the Immigration Act of 1882, focusing on immigration rules...
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    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...
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    the first federal immigration bureaucracy and laid the foundation for more regulations on immigration, such as the Immigration Act of 1891. Prior to the...
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  • Asian immigration to the United States refers to immigration to the United States from part of the continent of Asia, which includes East Asia, South Asia...
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    restrictive immigration quota system established by the Immigration Act of 1924, revised and re-affirmed by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952,...
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  • regulates immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States. The United States Congress has authority over immigration policy in the...
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    the voyage. Immigration Act, 1869 — Canada's first immigration policy following Confederation. It contained few restrictions on immigration, mainly focusing...
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    The Immigration Act of 1907 was a piece of federal United States immigration legislation passed by the 59th Congress and signed into law by President Theodore...
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