· Washington, D.C.
War Brides Act Signed
history
The law admitted the alien spouses and children of US service members as non-quota immigrants; because Chinese exclusion had been repealed in 1943, Chinese wives were the only Asian spouses eligible, reshaping Chinese American family life.
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Sources
- nationalww2museum.org nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/war-brides-act-1945
- immigrationhistory.org immigrationhistory.org/item/war-brides-acts-1945-1947