The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Cellar Act, abolished the system of national-origin quotas.

These sanctions included the imposition of Section 212 ( f ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse entry into the United States of senior government officials and others who formulated, implemented, or benefited from policies impeding Nigeria's transition to democracy ; suspension of all military assistance ; and a ban on the sale and repair of military goods and refinery services to Nigeria.

The DOJ acted under the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had authorized a registration system but was allowed to lapse in the 1980's because of budget concerns.

Key acts changed were the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( FISA ), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 ( ECPA ), the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 and Bank Secrecy Act ( BSA ), as well as the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act ( better known as the McCarran – Walter Act ), lifted racial restrictions, but kept the quotas in place.

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Board of Immigration Appeals which review decisions made by government officials under Immigration and Nationality law remain under jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.

The United States Refugee Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96-212 ) was an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U. S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions for the effective resettlement and absorption of those refugees who are admitted.

The Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act by defining a refugee as any person who is outside their country of residence or nationality, or without nationality, and is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act was amended here when the Act created the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for funding and administering federal programs for domestic resettlement and assistance to refugees.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which was later amended in 1965 to include policy for refugees on a case by case basis, was the first Act that the consolidated U. S. immigration policy into one body of text.

Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

The Immigration and Nationality Act was one of many acts of Congress passed since the 1930s, which contained a provision allowing either house of that legislature to nullify decisions of agencies in the executive branch simply by passing a resolution.

In the years after the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, allowing many more immigrants from Asia into the country, the population of Chinatown exploded.

* those granted conditional entry pursuant to section ( a )( 7 ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( INA )

( c ) As used in this section, the term “ national of the United States ” has the meaning given such term in section 101 ( a )( 22 ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( ( a )( 22 )).

Such clauses have often proved highly controversial – for instance, that in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which prompted the aforementioned report, and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

Over the years since, the United States has codified this obligation in the provisions of Section 289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and as amended in 1965.

With the ensuing Great Depression, and despite worsening conditions for European Jews, with the rise of Nazi Germany, these quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

BGR also " lobbied on behalf of the Embassy of Mexico in 2001 to promote a bill related to Section 245 ( i ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

* June 27, 1952: Immigration and Nationality Act ( McCarran-Walter Act ),

* Sierra Leone: Information on the 1997 coup d ' etat, ECOMOG harassment of civilians, and the current situation in Sierra Leone by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 5 January 2000

All uniform branches of the Hong Kong ( Police, Police Auxiliary, Police Pipeband, Fire ( including Ambulance service members ), Immigration, Customs, Correctional Services, Government Flying Service, Civil Aid Service ) salute according to British Army traditions.

* Citizenship and Immigration Services, a bureau in the United States Department of Homeland Security

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

In doing so, it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services.

He also announced that the Department of Health and Human Services crafted regulation that would end the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban effective in January 2010 ; on January 4, 2010, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV status as a factor to be considered in the granting of travel visas.

* Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

Reasons include high costs to visit their families back home, support of a family not allowed to work due to immigration laws, tuition that is steep by world standards, and large fees: visa fees by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, surveillance fees ( such as Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems, or SEVIS ) by the United States Congress and the United States Department of Homeland Security.

These three components include U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ), U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), and U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ).

The administration of immigration services, including permanent residence, naturalization, asylum, and other functions became the responsibility of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services ( BCIS ), which existed only for a short time before changing to its current name, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ).

The 2000 documentary film Well-Founded Fear, from filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini marked the first time that a film-crew was privy to the private proceedings at the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Services ( INS ), where individual asylum officers ponder the often life-or-death fate of the majority of immigrants seeking asylum.

* U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) of the DHS

The Spanish-language logo of the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

* Citizenship and Immigration Services

* Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

The Hong Kong Police Force, the Fire Services Department, the Customs and Excise Department, the Immigration Department, the Government Flying Service, the Civil Aid Service, the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, the Auxiliary Medical Service, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and the Correctional Services Department each sends an aide-de-camp to the territory's Chief Executive, which replaced the Governor in 1997.

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly restricted immigration and allowed processing at overseas embassies, the only immigrants to pass through the station were displaced persons or war refugees.

* 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

Between 1924 and 1929, 82, 000 more Jews arrived ( 4th Aliyah ), fleeing antisemitism in Poland and Hungary and because the United States Immigration Act of 1924 now kept Jews out.

In 1921, the Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.

In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990, which increased legal immigration to the United States by 40 %.

The law concerned was Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, brought in by the Labour Party government of 2005-2010.

In his review, psychologist Franz Samelson wrote that Gould was wrong in asserting that the psychometric results of the intelligence tests administered to soldier-recruits by the U. S. Army contributed to the legislation of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.

In their study of the Congressional Record and committee hearings related to the Immigration Act, Mark Snyderman and Richard J. Herrnstein reported that " the testing community did not generally view its findings as favoring restrictive immigration policies like those in the 1924 Act, and Congress took virtually no notice of intelligence testing.

* The Immigration Act of 1924 places restrictions on immigration.

* May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.

* August 3 – The U. S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.