Finally. Mr. President. my bill envisions. as the Watkins bill does too. the strong probability that many of the visa numbers in some of the categories established under section 4 of the present law will not be used up. I would hope this would not be true. but it is most likely to prove true. My bill would extend the life of the program until 1960 and provide that persons eligible under the act can be admitted until 1960. My bill provides for the reallocation of unused visas among those groups which have the greatest need for visas. In those categories under section 4 where there are long lists of applications which cannot be granted. the unused visa numbers would be distributed among the various categories in section 4 in proportion to the numbers of applications which have been filed and which have not been acted upon. due to the exhaustion of available numbers in those categories. The Watkins bill would make these unused numbers available for a worldwide orphan pool. I do not think that such a pool would use up the unused numbers. nor do I think that this is especially the way to handle the orphan problem.
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