Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government has more closely scrutinized the arrival of foreigners. The agency once known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service is now called the Bureau of ...

The 1790 Naturalization Act reserves naturalized citizenship for whites only. African Americans are not guaranteed citizenship until 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...

The first naturalization law was passed in 1790, the year Rhode Island became the final of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution and one year before the Bill of Rights was ratified.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 specified that “any alien, being a free white person,” could apply for citizenship, so long as he or she lived in the United States for at least two years, ...

Naturalization — the process immigrants go through to become citizens — was first built into U.S. law with the passage of the Naturalization Act of 1790. Back then naturalization was open only ...

In 1790 and 1795, Congress enacted naturalization laws that allowed white persons only to apply as two-year residents of “good character” who had “to renounce forever allegiance and ...

The first naturalization law was passed in 1790, the year Rhode Island became the final of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution and one year before the Bill of Rights was ratified.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 specified that “any alien, being a free white person,” could apply for citizenship, so long as he or she had lived in the United States for at least two years, ...