Also. some of the EX visitors developed family ties in this country through marriage to U.S. citizens. or to lawfully residing aliens. and not infrequently an exchange student would marry another exchange student whom he met in this country. The birth of children to these couples is similarly a not infrequent event. Soon. private legislation appeared in the hoppers of the House and the Senate. seeking adjustment of immigrant status in cases of EX visitors where such adjustments were not feasible under administrative procedures. The number of exchange visitors applying for permanent residence in the United States has markedly increased as the years went by. causing considerable concern first to the foreign governments who sent to the United States for education and training the cream of the crop of their youth. and then to our own Department of State where it was soon realized that to retain the exchange trainees in the United States after the completion of their education. would. of course. have the effect of nullifying the exchange program. Consequently. in 1955. the Department of State recommended the enactment of a bill which would make it impossible for the exchange alien to remain in the United States without first departing from this country for a certain period of time and spending that time in his own country.
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