Immigration Act

Immigration Act

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

*Canada
**Immigration Act, 1869
**Immigration Act, 1906
**Chinese Immigration Act of 1923
**Immigration Act, 1952
**Immigration Act, 1976
**Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002
*European Union Asylum and Immigration Act
*French Immigration Act
* United Kingdom
**Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
**Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968
**Immigration Act 1971
**British Nationality Act 1981
**Immigration Act 1986
**Immigration Act 1988
**British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990
**Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
**Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997
**Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
**Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
**Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004
**Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
*United States
**1882 Immigration Act
**1907 Immigration Act
**1924 Immigration Act
**Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)
**1965 Immigration Act
**Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
**"See also:" List of United States Immigration Acts


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