The barriers for Korean and Japanese war brides were removed by a 1947 amendment.
[1] According to Aaron D. Horton, nearly 45,000 foreign-born women entered the United States under the act.
[2] Fiancés who did not marry after arriving in the United States were subject to deportation.
But many Asian women, especially large numbers of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino women, also entered the United States under the act, who previously were unable to immigrate due to strict quotas on Asian immigration.
[3] According to Emily Alward, admission of Asian women into the United States ultimately made the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 possible.