While many people were anxious to see an extension of proxy adoptions under suitable safeguards through this legislation. an amendment to extend the present law for a 1year period was defeated in conference. However. the conference in effect extended the present law to September 30 to take care of socalled pipeline cases. where applications were not fully processed by the June 30 expiration date. Under S. 2237 eligible orphans adopted abroad by American parents or coming to the United States for adoption in conformity with State laws would continue to be admissible as nonquota immigrants. While there are many commendable provisions of this bill. there are several sections of the bill about which I have reservations. Section 9 of the bill provides that all new countries will have a quota total at least equal to the present quota now available for the various components making up the new country.
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