Speech #670019276

That aliens returning from a temporary visit abroad. aliens who are professional actors. artists. lecturers. singers. nurses. ministers of any religious denomination. professors for colleges or seminaries. aliens belonging to any recognized learned profession. or aliens employed as domestic servants. may. if otherwise admissible. be admitted. notwithstanding the -maximum number of aliens of the same nationality admissible in the same month or fiscal year. as the case may be. shall have entered the United States. but aliens of the classes included in this proviso who enter the United States before such .maximum number shall have entered shall (unless excluded .by subdivision (a) from being counted) be :counted in reckoning the percentage limits provided in this act: Provided further. That in The enforcement of this act preference shall be given so far as possible to the wives. parents. brothers. sisters. children under 18 years of age. .and fianc~es. (1) of citizens of the United States. (2) of aliens now in the United States who have applied for citizenship in the manner provided by law. or (3) of persons eligible to United States citizenship who served in the military or naval forces of the United States at any time between April 6. 1917. and November 11. 1918. both -dates inclusive. and have been saparated from .such forces under honorable conditions. " SEC. 3. That the Commissioner General of Immigration. with the approval of the Secretary of Labor. shall. .as soon a( feasible after the enactment of this act. and from time to time thereafter. prescribe rules and regulations necessary to carry the provisions -of this act .into .effect. He shall. as soon as feasible after the .enactment of this act. :publish a statement showing the number of aliens of the various nationalities who may be admitted to the United States between the date this act becomes effective and the end of the current fiscal .year. and on June 30 thereafter he shall publish a statement showing the number of aliens of the various nationalities who may be admitted during the ensfing fiscal year. He shall also publish monthly statements during the time this act remains in force showing the number of aliens of each natipntiality already admitted during the then current fiscal year and the number who may be admitted mder the provisions -of this act during the remainder of such year. but when .75 :per cent of the maximum number of any nationality admissible during -the fiscal year shall have -been admitted such statements shall be issued weekly thereafter. All statements shall be made available -for general publication and shall be mailed to all transportation companies bringing~aliens to the United States who shall request the same and shall file with the Department of Labor tile address to which such statements shall be sent. The Secretary of Labor shall also submit such statements to the Secretary of State. who shall transmit the information contained therein to the proper diplomatic and consular officials of the United States. wh.ch officials shall make tile same available to persons intending to emigrate to the United States and to others who may apply. " SEC. 4. That the provisions of this act are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of the immigration laws. " SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect and be enforced 15 days after its enactment (except sees. 1 and 3 and subdivisions (b) and (c) of see. 2. which shall -take effect immediately upon the enactment of this act) and shall continue in force until June 30. 1922. and the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted during the remaining period of the current fiscal year. from the date when this act becomes effective to