The act authorizes bringing selected persons here from friendly countries for a period of training or education in our schools with the idea that they will then go back to apply their knowledge and skills in their own countries and to interpret our country more accurately to their own people. Unfortunately. it sometimes works out that after they come here they become enamored of American life and want to stay here. They make friends who also say they should stay in the United States. or come right back as immigrants. so they try to get their status changed from an exchange visitor to that of a permanent resident. or they arrange to go across to Mexico or Canada for a short while and then come back as im* migrants. That defeats the whole idea. which was that those persons would come here to get training and then go back. to make their training available to their own countries. This bill will correct that situation by making it -impossible for persons who come here as exchange visitors to apply for an immigrant status or for a change in their status as visitors until they have gone back and worked or resided at least 2 years in their own countries or other friendly countries.
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