Congressional Acts
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Cessation of immigration from China 1917 Asiatic Barred Zone Act Cessation of immigration to the U.S. from either mostly Asian countries, including a region of British India. 1943 Magnuson Act Resumption of naturalization rights to Chinese Americans and immigration permitted from China 1946 Luce-Celler Act Resumption of naturalization rights to Indian Americans and Filipino Americans. Nominal immigration allowed, quota placed at 100 by the season from either India and 10By a month from either the Philippines 1965 Immigration and Nationality Services (INS) Act of 1965 Elimination of racial/nationality-based discrimination inside immigration quotas.

Judicial Rulings
1922 Takao Ozawa v. United States Japanese despite being light-skinned are deemed not-white and thereby exempt from rights and privileges of naturalization. 1923 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind Indians despite being anthropologically Caucasian are ruled to be not-white and further ruled to instead be Asian, thereby subjecting them to pre-existing anti-Asian laws

See Also
Indian American History and Immigration [http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/immigr05.htm Timeline of Asian Pacific Americans and Immigration Law] [http://www.ailf.org/ipc/policy_reports_2005_barredzone.asp Closed Borders and Mass Deportations: The Lessons of the Barred Zone Act]