I have been actively engaged for some years in the effort to promote international travel. and some of my proposals .are incorporated in S. 3102. a bill to establish an Office of International Travel and Tourism. which I cosponsored with the Senator from Washington and which was adopted by the Senate on June 7. 1960. Numerous legal barriers. however. confront potential visitors to the United States. More than 30 provisions under which nonimmigrant visitors can be kept out of this country are listed in our immigration laws. and while many of them can be waived. they nevertheless cannot be regarded as encouraging to the foreign tourist. Visas are required. No other country requires fingerprinting of alien visitors. While in most cases the United States waives this provision of the law. the visa officer may require fingerprinting of an individual to make a security check if he feels it necessary. A visa may be withheld if the officer has reason to believe that the applicant is a person whose presence will be prejudicial to the public interestitself a value judgment. Once the tourist passes all these barriers and arrives in this country. he is required to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service on arrival. giving the address where he will be located and informing the Immigration and Naturalization Service within 10 days of any change of his address. What this means in terms of its effect on tourist travel to the United States is brilliantly illustrated in a letter which came to my office from Naples. Italy.
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