Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin, which discriminated against non-Northwestern European, Asian, and Irish immigrants and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families, helping refugees, and attracting skilled labor to the United States. Mrs. Gupta became a permanent resident in March 1966, and a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in May 1972.

This photo shows Suman and Har Krishnan Lal Gupta and their one-year-old daughter Rashima in the office of John P. Boyd (at right), district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, after she received permanent residency status.

Caption information source: "Olympia Woman is No Longer 'On Parole' to Her Husband," Seattle Daily Times, April 1, 1966, p. 53.
Caption information source: "U.S. Immigration Since 1965," retrieved at https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/us-immigration-since-1965