HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Santa Barbara City College, Diversity Immigrant Visa
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In the first 10 years of the 20th century, immigration from europe stood in the millions every year, with a peak of 8 million immigrants in 1910. Ina: one important change was to make the department of homeland security (dhs) part of the department that administers refugee and other entry- level rules, the dhs is in charge of protecting the usa from terrorist attacks. The new immigration department is called the citizenship and citizenship service (cis): the old agency, called the immigration and naturalization service (ins), was replaced. If non-citizens enter the united states they must get official permission from the government to stay in the country: that credit is known as visa, visas are issued by the cis for a given period. In addition, there"ll be no more than 25,650 immigrants from any single country. In addition to the family members, there are two other primary ways to earn a green card.
