Timeline by Malaya Majam-Finch

1763

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:19:00 UTC

Filipinos were first recorded settling in America. To escape imprisonment they would jump ship and flee into the Louisiana Bayous.

1790

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:20:37 UTC

First arrival of Asian Indians in the United States.

1848

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:22:43 UTC

Chinese miners began to migrate to the United States in search of gold.

1842

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:26:20 UTC

The first group of 195 Chinese contract laborers arrived in Hawaii.
Over 20,000 Chinese entered California.

1880

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:29:18 UTC

U.S. and China signed a treaty to give the U.S. the ability to limit but not absolutely prohibit Chinese immigration.

1884

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:31:35 UTC

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was amended to require a certificate as the only permissible evidence for reentry.

1860

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:35:53 UTC

Japan sends the first diplomatic mission to the U.S.

1900

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:37:38 UTC

Japanese Hawaiian plantation workers began migrating to the mainland.

1903

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:40:26 UTC

The first group of 7,000 Korean workers arrived in Hawaii to break the strike of the Japanese laborers.
Filipino students arrive in the U.S. for higher education.

1910

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:42:58 UTC

Administrative measures used to restrict the influx of Asian Indians into California.
Angel Island Immigration Station opened to process and deport Asian immigrants.

1918

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:55:09 UTC

Servicemen to Asian ancestry who had served in WWI receive the right of naturalization.

1946

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:58:14 UTC

Luce-Cellar bill grants the right of naturalization and small immigration quotas to Asian Indians and Filipinos.
Philippines becomes independent. U.S. citizenship is offered to all Filipinos living in the United States, not just servicemen.

1947

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 19:59:47 UTC

Amendment to 1945 War Brides Act allows Chinese American veterans to bring brides in the U.S.

1949

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 20:55:05 UTC

5,000 highly educated Chinese in the United States granted refugee status after China instituted a Communist government.

1975

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 20:56:20 UTC

More than 130,000 refugees entered the U.S. from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are established there following the end of the Indochina War.

1978

300023192_2 — 2024-11-19 20:58:08 UTC

Massive exodus of "boat people" from Vietnam.

1980

300023192_2 — 2024-11-20 04:59:43 UTC

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees set up an Orderly Departure Program to enable Vietnamese to emigrate legally.

1988

300023192_2 — 2024-11-20 05:04:20 UTC

American Homecoming Act allows children in Vietnam born of American fathers to immigrate to the U.S.

1989

300023192_2 — 2024-11-20 05:06:17 UTC

U.S. reaches agreement with Vietnam to allow political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S.

1952

300023192_2 — 2024-11-20 05:08:41 UTC

Clause in the McCarran - Walter Act grants the right of naturalization and a small immigration quota to Japanese.