In addition. the President is authorized to provide for foreign tours by creative and performing artists and athletes. American participation in international artistic. dramatic. musical. sports and other cultural events abroad. and also for participation by foreigners in similar programs in the United States. A particularly needed improvement in the exchange program is provided by the amendment of the Immigration and Nationality Act so as to allow the spouses and children of visiting students and scholars to come into the United States under visa provisions similar to those applying to the grantees themselves. Under existing law members of a grantees family must enter on visitors. as distinguished from student. visas. which frequently means that they may not be admitted for periods of the same duration as the grantees. The act would be amended so as to remove this cause of hardship and thus permit grantees and their families to come and remain in the United States together. Educational and cultural exchange is as fundamentalthough far less costlyan instrument of foreign policy as our massive programs of defense and foreign aid.
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