Immigration Act

An Immigration Act is a law regulating immigration. A number of countries have had Immigration Acts including:

  • Canada
    • The Immigration Act, 1906
    • The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923
    • The Immigration Act, 1952
    • The Immigration Act, 1978
    • The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002
  • Hong Kong
    • The Immigration Ordinance 1971
  • New Zealand
    • The Immigration Act 1987
    • The Immigration Act 2009
  • United Kingdom
    • The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
    • The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968
    • The Immigration Act 1971
    • The British Nationality Act 1981
    • The Immigration Act 1986
    • The Immigration Act 1988
    • The British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990
    • The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
    • The Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997
    • The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
    • The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
    • The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004
    • The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
    • The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
  • United States
    • 1882 Immigration Act
    • 1907 Immigration Act
    • The Immigration Act of 1917
    • The Immigration Act of 1918
    • The Immigration Act of 1924
    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
    • The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
    • See also List of United States Immigration Acts
  • Other
  • European Union Asylum and Immigration Act
  • French Immigration Act

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    “I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
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