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| 1918 || October 16 || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|Immigration Act of 1918}}, also known as the '''Alien Anarchists Exclusion Act of 1918''', is signed into law by President {{w|Woodrow Wilson}} after passing the {{w|65th United States Congress}}.
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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 '''Johnson–Reed Act''', and including parts known as 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
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| 1924 || || Organizational restructuring || United States Border Patrol || || {{w|United States Border Patrol}} is created within the Bureau of Immigration.<ref name=uscis-organizational-timeline/>
| 1945 || December 28 || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|War Brides Act}} is signed into law by President {{w|Harry Truman}} after passing both chambers of the {{w|79th United States Congress}. The law allows alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of members of the {{w|United States Armed Forces}}, "if admissible," to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants after {{w|World War II}}. This mostly benefits Chinese, whose entry is allowed by the Magnuson Act, but who are subject to strict quotas. The Act would expire on December 31, 1948.
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| 1946 || June 29 || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act of 1946}} is signed into law by President {{w|Harry Truman}} after passing both chambers of the {{w|79th United States Congress}}. It extends the War Brides Act by eliminating barriers for Filipino and Indian war brides. A 1947 amendment would also remove barriers for Korean and Japanese war brides. The Act would expire on December 31, 1948. || Philippines, India (latere later also Korea, Japan)
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| 1946 || July 2 || Legislation || Executive branch || || The {{w|Luce–Celler Act of 1946}} is signed into law by President {{w|Harry Truman}} after passing both chambers of the {{w|79th United States Congress}}. Proposed by Republican {{w|Clare Booth Luce}} and Democrat {{w|Emanuel Celler}} in 1943, the Act allows annual immigration of 100 Filipinos and 100 Indians, and allows people of both nationalities to naturalize. The Act becomes law just two days before Filipino independence; without the Act, Filipino migration would have to stop completely upon Filipino independence. || Philippines, India
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| 1952 || June 27 || Legislation (landmark) || Executive branch || A (diplomat), B (business/tourist visitor), C (transit), D (crew), E (treaty trader, investor), F (student), G (foreign government representative), H (temporary workersworker), I (foreign press) || The {{w|Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952}} becomes law after both chambers of the {{w|82nd United States Congress}} vote to override the veto of President {{W|Harry S. Truman}}. This is the first of two big overhauls of the immigration system (the second being in 1965). Subsequent legislations would often be framed in terms of modifications to this legislation. Among other things, the H visa category is created by this Act.Among other things, this Act begins the processing of formalizing non-immigrant classifications using letters of the alphabet; title I, section 15 defines the A to I nonimmigrant classifications.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg163.pdf|title = Public Law 414: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952|date = June 27, 1952|accessdate = July 20, 2020}}</ref>
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| 1952 || || Organizational restructuring || U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs; current equivalent: Bureau of Consular Affairs || || This also leads to the creation of the Bureau of Inspection, Security and Consular Affairs, which is responsible for issuing visas at foreign consulates to people who want to enter the United States. In 1954, the Bureau is renamed the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs.
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