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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the McCarran–Walter Act) revised the National Origins Formula, again allotting quotas in proportion to the national origins of the population as of the 1920 census, but by a simplified calculation taking a flat one-sixth of 1 percent of the number of inhabitants of each nationality then residing in ...
In 1952, the Immigration and Naturalization Office was first established in Guam and that year the Immigration and Nationality Act, the foundation of the current statutes on US nationality, included provisions for Guam for the first time, confirming that they were nationals and citizens from birth.
In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 made a distinction between "citizenship" and "nationality" of the United States: all United States citizens are also United States nationals, but not all U.S. nationals are also U.S. citizens. [79] Hence, it is possible for a person to be a national of the United States but not a U.S. citizen.
The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers a person's legal belonging to a state and is the common term used in international treaties when referring to members of that polity; citizenship refers to the set of rights and duties a person has in that nation. [3]
Kenyan nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Kenya, as amended; the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, and its revisions; and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Kenya. [3]
Nationality law in the American colonies preceding the Articles of Confederation was a decentralized early attempt to develop the concept of citizenship among colonial settlers with respect to the major colonial powers of the period. Precedent was largely based on English common law, with jurisdictional discretion afforded to each of the ...
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1961 Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 87–301: 1962 Migration and Refugee Assistance Act: Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 87–510: 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act) Repealed the national-origin quotas.