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In order to become a naturalized US Citizen you need to have lived in the United States for two years.
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It repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1790.
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Incresed the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the US from 5 to 14 years.
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Law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices.
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Was the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."
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This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.
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Shared the principle of immigration restriction with these two aforementioned acts, it was different in a fundamental way.
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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.
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It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The act expanded and elaborated the brief definition found in the Anarchist Exclusion Act.
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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.
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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.
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It was an act to revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code
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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.
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The Act governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States.
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Abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act.
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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.
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An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise and reform the immigration laws, and for other purposes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
