| 1943 | The Chinese Exclusion Acts were repealed. The Repeal Act allowed naturalization for the Chinese in America and established an annual immigration quota of 105 Chinese. |
| 1947 | The war Brides' Act allowed alien wives of Chinese American veterans to immigrate to the United States on a non-quota basis, thus changing the Chinese "bachelor society" and "mutilated family" picture in America. |
| 1952 | The McCarran-Walter Act allowed US naturalization regardless of race, but Asians were still limited with immigration quotas. |
| 1962 | The Hong Kong Refugee Act under John F. Kennedy's administration allowed thousands of Chinese to enter as parolees. This plus various other refugee acts (1948 Displaced Persons Act, 1953 Refugee Relief Act, 1957 Refugee Escape Act, etc.) increased Chinese American population as well as helped to further reunite fragmented families. |