Immigration Act

An Immigration Act is a law regulating immigration. A number of countries have had Immigration Acts including:

  • Canada
    • The Immigration Act, 1906
    • The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923
    • The Immigration Act, 1952
    • The Immigration Act, 1978
    • The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002
  • Hong Kong
    • The Immigration Ordinance 1971
  • New Zealand
    • The Immigration Act 1987
    • The Immigration Act 2009
  • United Kingdom
    • The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
    • The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968
    • The Immigration Act 1971
    • The British Nationality Act 1981
    • The Immigration Act 1986
    • The Immigration Act 1988
    • The British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990
    • The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
    • The Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997
    • The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
    • The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
    • The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004
    • The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
    • The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
  • United States
    • 1882 Immigration Act
    • 1907 Immigration Act
    • The Immigration Act of 1917
    • The Immigration Act of 1918
    • The Immigration Act of 1924
    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
    • The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
    • See also List of United States Immigration Acts
  • Other
  • European Union Asylum and Immigration Act
  • French Immigration Act

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    “The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

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