List Of United States Immigration Acts
Many acts of congress and executive actions relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United States Code. Acts of Congress Executive actions See also * History of immigration to the United States * History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States * Illegal immigration to the United States * Immigration policy of the United States * Immigration to the United States * List of United States federal legislation * United States nationality law References Further reading * Lemay, Michael and Elliott Robert Barkan (editors). ''U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History''. Greenwood Press, 1999. * Zolberg, Aristide. ''A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America''. Harvard University Press, 2006. External links * History of Legislation from the ...
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Immigration To The United States
Immigration has been a major source of population growth and Culture of the United States, cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any other country in the world, with 47 million immigrants as of 2015. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the United States' population. According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted a total of 1.18 million legal immigrants (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016. Of these, 48% were the immediate relatives of United States citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% were refugees or asylum seekers, 12% were employment-based preferences, 4.2% were part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa program, 1.4% were victims of a crime (U1) or their family members were (U2 to U5), and 1.0% who were granted the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) for Iraqis and Af ...
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