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 Gupta with her daughter, Rashima, in the office of John P. Boyd, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, after Suman was granted permanent residency. Rashima holds an identification card bearing her mother's photo.

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