Our present passport laws permit consular officers to refuse to vise a passport only if the consul has reason to believe that the man asking for the vis is opposed to an organized form of government or is an anarchist. and so forth. Our State Department has blanks upon which the application for the passport vis is written out. Your committee. in setting up this plan for questionnaire examinations overseas. has adopted the form used in the State Department. and inasmuch as provision is made for examination of prospective immigrants on the other side we give the consuls the right to make the inquiry after receiving the information. and the right to reject the vis. Now. in these committee amendments that we are offering we are attempting to simplify the paper work. Your comimittee has built up a plan for the application upon which the certificate is to be issued. Following that a vis is to be issued. Adopting the suggestions of the Secretary of State. we combine it all in one paper. so that the original copy of the application. when it is visded. becomes the certificate which is used by the immigrant to travel. he is counted on it. and upon his arrival at the port of entry is taken up. properly noted. and placed on file in the records of the department. where it becomes his record to be used by him when the time comes to sign his naturalization papers.
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