Immigration Timeline

By hosam homran

  • NATURALIZATION ACT

    ULY 14 - NATURALIZATION ACT OF 1870- CREATED A SET OF RULES FOR THE PROCESS OF NATURALIZING A PERSON FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY. ASLO INCLUDES PENALTIES AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES.

  • CHINESSE EXCLUSION ACT

    MAY 6 1882- CHINESSE EXCLUSION ACT- It was one of the most IMPORTANT RESTRAINTS on free immigration in US history, prohibitED all immigration of Chinese WORKERS.

  • THE GEARY ACT

    APRIL 24 1892- THE GEARY ACT- THIS LAW BASICALLY ADD STRENGTH TO THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT.

  • NATURALIZATION ACT

    SEPTEMBER 27- NATURALIZATION ACT OF 1906- revised the law from 1870 and REQUIRED immigrants to learn English in order to become NATURALIZED CITITZENS. . The bill was passed on June 29, 1906, and took effect ON September 27, 1906

  • Immigration Act

    1916-Immigration Act provided for literacy tests for those over 16 and established an "Asiatic Barred Zone," which barred all immigrants from Asia

  • Added to the number of undesirables banned

    1917-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”

  • restricted immigration into the United States

    1921- restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy

  • Japanese

    1922-Japanese made ineligible for citizenship

  • The Johnson-Reed Act

    1924- The Johnson-Reed Act limits annual European immigration to 2 percent of the number of nationality group in the United States in 1890.

  • Provided for finger printing

    1940- Provided for finger printing and registering of all aliens.

  • Required nationality at Birth.

    1940- Required nationality at Birth.

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    1943- The Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed. By the end of the 1940s, all restrictions on Asians acquiring U.S. citizenship are abolished

  • mmigration Reform and Control Act

    1986- Immigration Reform and Control Act provided for amnesty for many illegal aliens and sanctions for employers hiring illegals.