Post Independence
The War Brides Act of 1945, and subsequent Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act of 1946, allowed veterans, to return back to the Philippines to bring back fiancées, wives, and children. In the years following the war, some sixteen thousand Filipinas entered the United States as war brides. That is not to say only women and children were beneficiaries of the acts for it was recorded that a lone Filipino groom immigrated during this period. These new immigrants enabled the formation of a second generation of Filipino Americans that added to the Filipino American communities, providing nuclear families. Immigration levels would also be impacted by the independence of the Philippines from the United States, which would occur on July 4, 1946. The quota of non-naval immigration increased slightly to 100 due to the passage of the Luce–Celler Act of 1946. Thus Filipino American communities developed around United States Navy bases, whose impact can still be seen today. Filipino American communities were also settled near Army and Air Force bases. In 1946 the Filipino Naturalization Act allowed for naturalization, and citizenship for Filipinos who had arrived before March, 1943.
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