Mr. President. one of the urgent matters now before Congress is the need to extend the provisions of the orphan" immigration law which grants nonquota immigrant status to eligible orphans under 14 years of age who have been or will be adopted by American families. The present provisions expire this June 30. and unless a new law is enacted by that time. adopted orphan children will come under the regular immigration quota. They will be unable to enter the United States in substantial numbers and join their families in the United States. This is particularly true for orphan children from the Far East. where immigration quotas are small and from where more than 65 percent of the children admitted under the program have come. Under the orphan section of Public Law 85316. which I sponsored. 3.425 orphan visas has been issued since September 11. 1957. through March 1959. Forty percent of all orphan visas issued were issued to Korean children. Since July 1955. some 2.000 Korean orphan children have been admitted to the United States under the old Refugee Relief Act. the emergency parole procedure. and Public Law 85316. Of this number. my constituent. Harry Holt of Creswell.
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