Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992
The
Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 was a bill sponsored by
Nancy Pelosi which granted permanent residency to all nationals of the
People's Republic of China arriving in the
United States on or before
April 11,
1990. The stated purpose of the act was to prevent political persecution of Chinese students in the aftermath of the
Tiananmen protests of 1989. One provision of the act was that a permanent residency status granted to a Chinese national under the act would subtract from the immigration spaces available in later years.
The primary beneficaries of this act where undocumented immigrants from Fujian province who were not students at all.