Was Brides Act

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The War Brides Act (German: Kriegsbräutegesetz ) was a US federal law from 1945 that allowed foreign spouses of US soldiers to enter the United States .

Background and story

The law, which was passed by the US Congress on December 28, 1945, stipulated that the spouses of members of the American armed forces , who had usually married them during their war missions abroad, could enter the USA without a visa. The scheme also included the children and adopted children of these soldiers. The law was a complement to the current American immigration law, the central law of which - the Immigration Act of 1924 - was very restrictive and contained no regulations that would have particularly favored family reunification .

The Fiancée Act , passed on June 29, 1946, supplemented the provisions of the War Brides Act and also made it possible for the fiancées of American soldiers to enter the USA in order to marry them there. In a supplementary law (Amendment to 1945 War Brides Act) in 1947, the entry of war brides of Chinese Americans was also allowed.

The beneficiaries of the law included the Chinese and Chinese Americans living in the United States, who were mostly unmarried due to the prohibition of intercultural marriages and the long-standing difficulties in immigrating Chinese women and who often found their first opportunity to get married during their war effort in China. Around 6,000 Chinese women were able to enter the USA on the basis of the War Bride Act.

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