U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW: NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS

U.S. immigration law: Applied to the Northern Marianas Islands

U.S. immigration law: Applied to the Northern Marianas Islands

Outline

I. Thesis statement

A. In thesis statemnt we have discussed new government and constitution went into effect in 1978.

II. History

B. In this section we have discussed Northern Marianas Islands history.

III. Main body

C. In this part we have explained U.S. immigration law applied to the Northern Marianas Islands.

1. U.S. immigration law: Applied to the Northern Marianas Islands

IV. Conclusion

D. In this section we have give the summary about the pending legislation which allows current CNMI foreign investors to convert to CNMI-only nonimmigrant treaty investors during the transition period.

V. References

Thesis statement

Under US administration as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific, the people of the Northern Mariana Islands decided in the 1970s not to seek independence but instead to forge closer links with the US. Negotiations for territorial status began in 1972. A covenant to establish a commonwealth in political union with the US was approved in 1975. A new government and constitution went into effect in 1978.

History

The first people to come to the Marianas arrived over 3500 years ago, probably from Southeast Asia through the Philippines. The south islands were occupied early, the north later. The ancient people evolved into Chamorro people. An ancient trading route between the central Carolinian islands brought ancestors of the Carolinians to Saipan(Jayvee, 2007).

The first European to arrive in these islands was the Portuguese navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, who came to Guam and Rota in 1521 during his circumnavigation of the world in an attempt to find a route across the Pacific. Spain took possession of the archipelago in 1565 and ruled it for more than 300 years. The first permanent Spanish colony was established in 1668. Spain ceded Guam to the United States following the Spanish-American War, then sold the Northern Mariana Islands to Germany in 1899. Germany acquired these islands primarily to increase their international prestige. German economic development was based on the copra industry.

Japan took control of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1914, the first year of World War I. By ratification of the League of Nations in 1920, Japan received a mandate over the islands. This mandate lasted until 1945 with 30,000 Japanese nationals residing on Saipan. The Japanese developed the island largely for sugar production and processing(Ferdie, 2007).

World War II came to the Marianas in 1941. Major American battles occurred in the Northern Marianas in 1944, including the pivotal Marianas campaign which signaled the end of the War in the Pacific. The Emperor of Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces on August 15, 1945, ending World War II, and a U.S. military government was instituted in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Main body

U.S. immigration law: Applied to the Northern Marianas Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific ...