Speech #870034760

Public Health Service. are being included into permanent law under the first part of section 11 of the bill. Section 10. two latter parts of section 11. and section 14 codify existing law applicable to the granting of waivers of certain excluding provisions and consolidate with the basic statute the matter now contained in the enactments of 1954 and 1957. Section 13 eliminates existing requirement that a visa applicant state in his application his race and ethnic classification. Inasmuch as neither race nor ethnic classification have any bearing on the eligibility of an alien to enter the United States. the elimination of the two items from application forms is proposed. Section 15 is designed to correct certain judicial misinterpretations of "saving clauses" of the naturalization law by establishing a uniform rule of naturalization under the provisions of existing law. Sections 17 and 18 prescribe rules of evidence in judicial revocation of citizenship and in administrative determinations of voluntary or involuntary expatriation. Section 19 grants to the spouse and child of a naturalized U.S. citizen. who after attaining the age of 60 has retired from his occupation. the privilege of retaining U.S. citizenship If the entire family resides abroad. Sections 20. 21. 22. and 23 provides for technical rearrangements in the permanent statute resulting from codification. and section 24 repeals several obsolete or temporary enactments consolidated with the permanent statute pursuant to the bill.