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Naturalization Act of 1790
In order to become a naturalized US Citizen you need to have lived in the United States for two years. -
Naturalization Act of 1795
It repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1790. -
Naturalization Act of 1798
Incresed the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the US from 5 to 14 years. -
Naturalization Act of 1870
Law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. -
Page Act of 1875
Was the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable." -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Immigration Act of 1882
Shared the principle of immigration restriction with these two aforementioned acts, it was different in a fundamental way. -
The Geary Act
The Geary ACt extended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act for an additional 10 years, and required persons of Chinese descent to acquire and carry identification papers. -
Immigration Act of 1903
It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. -
Naturalization Act of 1906
It was an act of th US Congress singned into law by Theodore Roosevelt that revised the law from 1870 and required immigrants to learn english in order to become naturalized citizens. -
Immigration Act 1907
The Act was part of a series of reforms aimed at restricting the increasing number and groups of immigrants coming into the U.S. before and after World War l. -
Immigration Act of 1917
This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective”, polygamists, and anarchists. -
Immigration Act of 1918
The act expanded and elaborated the brief definition found in the Anarchist Exclusion Act. -
Emergency Quota Act
Restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States. -
Immigration Act of 1924
It limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provited immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the US as of the 1890 natuonal census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
Nationality Act of 1940
It was an act to revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code -
Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943
It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
The Act governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act. -
Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act
The law applies to any native or citizen of Cuba who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959 and has been physically present for at least one year; and is admissible to the United States as a permanent resident. -
Immigration Reform Act
An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise and reform the immigration laws, and for other purposes. -
Immigration Act of 1990
Increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
This act states that immigrants unlawfully present in the United States for 180 days but less than 365 days must remain outside the United States for three years unless they obtain a pardon. -
Arizona SB 1070 Act
It is a legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at the time of passage was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history. It has received national and intenational attention and has spurred considerable controversy. -
Alabama HB 56 Citizen’s Protection Act
It is an anti-iillegal immigration bill, signed into law in the U.S. state of Alabama in June 2011. As of 2011, it is regarded as the nation's strictest anti-illegal immigration law, tougher than Arizona SB 1070.
