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| 1921 || May 19 || Legislation (landmark) || Executive branch || F (students) || The {{w|Emergency Quota Act}}, also known as the '''Emergency Immigration Act of 1921''', the '''Immigration Restriction Act of 1921''', the '''Per Centum Law''', and the '''Johnson Quota Act''', is signed into law by President {{w|Warren G. Harding}} after passing both chambers of the {{w|67th United States Congress}}. It significantly reduces immigration quotas from countries around the world to 3% of the population of the country already present in the United States (this formula would later be called the {{w|National Origins Formula}}). || Differently affects different countries based on populations from them already in the United States
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| 1923 || || Court case || || || In ''{{w|United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind}}'', the {{w|Supreme Court of the United States}} rules that {{w| Bhagat Singh Thind}}, an Indian Sikh man who self-identifies as Aryan, is ineligible to naturalize, as the law allows only "free white persons" and "aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent" to become United States citizens by naturalization. || India
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| 1924 || May 24 || Legislation (landmark) || Executive branch || || The {{w|Immigration Act of 1924}}, also called the '''National Origins Act''' and the '''Asian Exclusion Act''', is signed into law by President {{w|Calvin Coolidge}} after passing both chambers of the {{w|68th United States Congress}}. This updates the National Origins Formula to reduce the percentage to 2%. || Differently affects different countries based on populations from them already in the United States
| 1933 || || Organizational restructuring || Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); modern equivalents are USCIS and CBP (and also ICE, though most ICE functions do not exist at the time) || || The Bureau of Immigration and Bureau of Naturalization merge into the {{w|Immigration and Naturalization Service}} (INS).<ref name=uscis-organizational-timeline/>
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| 1934 || March 24 || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|Tydings–McDuffie Act}} establishes the process for {{w|Philippines}}, then an American colony, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period. This also destroys freedom of movement from Philippines to the United States, as the now-to-be-independent Philippines is part of the Asiatic barred zone created by the Immigration Act of 1917 and reinforced by the Immigration Act of 1924. || Philippines
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| 1935 || || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935}} establishes a program to subsidize the return passage to the Philippines for Filipinos currently living in the United States. This is a followup to the {{w|Tydings–McDuffie Act}} that starts the process of Filipino independence and bans Filipino immigration. || Philippines
