Daily AncestorNonquota immigrant
A nonquota immigrant was admitted outside the 1924 national quotas, such as the wife or child of a U.S. citizen or a native of an independent American country.
Under the quota laws most immigrants counted against a yearly number for their country. From 1924 some classes did not: spouses and unmarried children of U.S. citizens, natives of the independent countries of the Western Hemisphere with their spouses and young children, and clergy coming with their families to carry on their work. From 1933 to 1952 professors were added. Visa columns on passenger lists mark these people N Quota.
Later laws used the same idea. The War Brides Act of 1945 let alien wives and children of servicemen enter as nonquota immigrants.
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