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Immigration to the United States over time by region. The 1850 United States census was the first federal U.S. census to query respondents about their "nativity"—i.e, where they were born, whether in the United States or outside of it—and is thus the first point at which solid statistics become available.
Naturalization in the United States is governed by the Immigration and Nationality Acts of 1952 and 1965, and it is overseen by the Citizenship and Immigration Services. To be eligible for naturalization, an applicant must be at least 18 years old, have established permanent residence for at least five years, have basic English proficiency, and ...
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. / 43.0403; -76.1355. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse ( TRAC) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan data gathering, data research, and data distribution organization in the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. [1] [2]
For the third straight month, immigration topped the list of the most important problems for Americans in the Gallup poll. The poll found that 27 percent of Americans said the most important issue ...
A JPMorgan analysis, which combines CBO data with its own, estimates that immigration added about 3.3 million people to the U.S. last year and expects a similar number this year.
The Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security under the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans.. Since the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics has had the responsibility to carry out two statutory requirements: 1) To collect and disseminate to Congress ...
e. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS) [3] is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that administers the country's naturalization and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was dissolved by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and replaced by ...
In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990, which increased legal immigration to the United States by 40%. In 1991, Bush signed the Armed Forces Immigration Adjustment Act 1991 , allowing foreign service members who had served 12 or more years in the US Armed Forces to qualify for permanent residency and, in some cases ...