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The Statue of Liberty is completed and unvailed to the public.
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In 1892, to mark the Federal government's control of immigration affairs (some States had previously taken matters into their own hands), Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay became the main entry point to the US for emigrants who had left their home countries. Over the the next 62 years, until its closure in 1954, Ellis Island processed some 12 million immigrants (according to the US Bureau of Immigration). Ellis Island has been turned into a wonderful museum of immigration.
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Ellis Island was opened and became the nation's busiest immigration inspection station until 1954.
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From 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese immigration to the USA. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902. It was finally repealed in 1943.
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In response to the massive wave of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 which required that immigrants be able to read and write in their native languages.
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The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants from a given country to 3 percent of the number of people living in the U.S. from that country in 1910. See the restrictions by country: ttp://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/outsidelink.html/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:981746
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Established a new quota system for each nationality and set a limit on the total number of immigrants to be allowed entry at all (150000 per year). The quota system that resulted from these acts served as teh basis for U.S. immigration policy for more than thirty-five years.
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The Alien Registration Act of 1940 requires that all immigrants in the United States over 14 years of age be registered and fingerprinted.
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She is the first in the family to move to the USA.
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They are the first in the family to move here.
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She attended college in NYC.
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Italian Chinese!!!!
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Happy Birthday!
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Country of origin: China.
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Another Italian Chinese!! How cool is that!
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The hospital apparently is across a bank in Flushing.
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Moves to Venezuela a few months after being born in NYC. Lives in Caracas for the next 11 years.
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Andy Chen is the triplet's father.
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Welcome!
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First American in the family!
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Dad, mom, sister and Weiheng move to the USA.
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Zilong goes to Washington D.C. to visit his uncle.
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Dad, mom, and Zilong move to the USA.
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Italy to China to USA. Crazy!
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It is a long way from Guangzhou, China.
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Kahua Chen in the triplet's mother.
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His first day in school was September 10, the very next day.
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Her second job in NYC.
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She is slowly getting used to her new American life.
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The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 legally allowed immigration to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson at a ceremony on Libery Island.
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http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/outsidelink.html/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:981746The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants from a given country to 3 percent of the number of people living in the U.S. from that country in 1910. See the restrictions by country:
