In the years since 1943 when the law designed to keep Chinese out of the US was scrapped, and with successive reforms to the Immigration and Nationality Law, Chinese immigrants to the States have included those coming to join their relatives, students who stayed on, refugees from Indochina, those on the move from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, and business and technical people from Taiwan.
撇開早期的華人移民不談，從美國一九四三年廢除「排華法案」，並陸續修正「移民法和國籍法」之後的五十年之間，美國華人移民的身分包括依親、赴美求學而留下來的留學生，越、棉、寮難民，最近的港、澳、大陸地區移民，及由台灣前去的商業、技術移民等。