Immigration continued even after Minorca was returned to Spain in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens )

Immigration from Spain and intermarriage with Spaniards from the surrounding Spanish towns was a constant feature of Gibraltar's history until the then Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, closed the border with Gibraltar in 1969, cutting off many Gibraltarians from their relatives on the Spanish side of the frontier.

Immigration from Europe was encouraged and people from Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Lebanon came to live in the city.

Immigration to Culiacán comes from all parts of the world, but especially from southern Mexico, Japan, China, and Europe ( Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Greece ).

On June 6, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft proposed regulations that would create a special registration program that required males aged 16 to 64 who were citizens of designated foreign nations resident in the U. S. to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), have their identity verified, and be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted.

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.

In 2002, the Canadian Immigration Law was completely revised.

* Francis, Samuel T., " America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture ", 2002.

The CDA fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 2002 was addressed by Roger Knapman, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party ; Ashley Mote, prominent UKIP MEP and author of " Overcrowded Britain-Our Immigration Crisis Exposed " ( 2004 ); John Gouriet, a founder with Norris McWhirter of the Freedom Association alongside Derek Turner, editor of Right Now!

** The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002

** The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

The test is a requirement under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

In 2002 Hughes was appointed Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism, but was forced to resign in April 2004 when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe-she had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it.

In 2002, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration started issuing the Permanent Resident Card ( originally billed as the Maple Leaf Card ) to all new Canadian permanent residents.

Many situations where people were at risk of statelessness due to the different classes of British nationality were resolved after 30 April 2003, when the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 came into force.

In October 2002 the Special Immigration Appeals Commission decided that the Home Secretary's derogation was lawful, and that there was indeed a " state of emergency threatening the life of the nation ".

In January 2002, was appointed Immigration minister.

As Minister of Immigration, Coderre supervised the application of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which came into effect on June 28, 2002.

In September 2005, it was realised that Hicks may be eligible for British citizenship through his mother, as a consequence of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

Maher Arar, a Syrian-born dual Syrian and Canadian citizen, was detained at Kennedy International Airport on 26 September 2002, by US Immigration and Naturalization Service officials.

* Fire damage from arson on 30 December 2002 at Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, South Australia, 8 January 2003 / Damian McDonald

* Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Lithuania: The current political status of the Lithuanian Democratic Party and the Lithuanian National, an alleged socialist movement headed by Mindaugas Murza ; whether the Lithuanian Nationalist Union unofficially supports the Lithuanian National ; recent reports of Lithuanian Democratic Party members having political problems with the current government ( 2001-March 2002 ), 21 March 2002.

* Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

He served as Director of Immigration between 1998 and 2002.

The Law Society of Canada, Immigration Branch, granted him a newly established Immigrant Achievement Award in April 2002.

* Immigration: The Economic Case ( 2002 ), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55263-532-5

Immigration into the province was eased tremendously by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line in 1880s.

Appointed by Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people a year to about 550, 000.

Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in lower Manhattan, just across the bay.

By the time it closed in 1954, twelve million immigrants had been processed by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

After widespread criticism of the situation, the government also conceded that maids having advanced renewal of contract would not be required to leave Hong Kong through the discretion exercised by the Director of Immigration, and employers would benefit from the waiver simply by renewing the contract within the two-year period, admitting that some employers could benefit from the waiver for up to 4 years.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

In Immigration, Holt continued and expanded the massive immigration program initiated by his ALP predecessor, Arthur Calwell.

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

Immigration patterns of the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, which hit the U. S. hard and lasted over ten years there.

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

Appointed by Bill Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people per year to approximately 550, 000.

In March 2009, the House of Lords Constitution Committee criticised UK government proposals in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill dealing with the Common Travel Area, concluding that " the policy-making process ... has not been informed by any real appreciation of the constitutional status of the Crown dependencies or the rights of free movement of Islanders ".

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

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

* 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

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.

Of the 10, 000 arrested, 3, 500 were held by authorities in detention ; 556 resident aliens were eventually deported under the Immigration Act of 1918.

Contacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrange an interview to determine her marriage is legitimate, Brontë tracks down Georges, who is working as a waiter.

The U. S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.