The Magnuson Act
Formally known as the Immigration Act of 1943, this law repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, allowing Chinese immigration and naturalization to resume.
Because China was a key US ally in World War II, Congress passed the Magnuson Act, which repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act and instead applied the same immigration restrictions as those on European countries – calculating 2% of the nationality’s population living in the US in 1890. In effect, however, this limited the number of Chinese immigrants to just 105 per year. Those immigrants who met requirements of citizenship were now able to become citizens.
