Speech #870171611

Mr. President. our bill closely follows the recommendations in the above statement. Its major provisions are as follows: 250.000 quota visas are authorized per year. of which 50.000 are to be made available to refugees and/or escapees without regard to quota areas. The remaining 200.000 quota visas are to be allocated to countries under a twopart computation. First. 80.000 quota visas are to be divided among countries in proportion to the size of their population to world population. but no one country is to get more than 3.000 numbers under this category. Second. 120.000 quota visas are to be allocated to countries based on the proportion of their immigration to the United States over the past 15 years to total of all immigration to the United States for the same period. No quota area shall get less than it got under the old law. except that the maximum is 25.000. The minimum quota is 200. Quotas are allocated to applicants either by country of birth or by country of citizenship. provided he has been domiciled for 10 years or more in the place of citizenship. All unused quota numbers at the end of the year are pooled and divided among quota areas having a backlog of applicants waiting for immigrant visas. No quota area shall get from this pool a number of visas greater than its regular annual quota and no more than 100.000 numbers may be used from the pool in any one year. Quotas under the bill will be revised every 5 years based on latest data. Within the quotas 60 percent are available to "blood relatives of a citizen or of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence through the third degree of consanguinity. their spouses and children." The remaining 40 percent is available to other qualified immigrants. Persons born in the Western Hemisphere remain nonquota. Also nonquota status is expanded to include the parents of a U.S. citizen and persons with special skills. including spouse and children. The bill automatically eliminates the AsiaPacific triangle provisions. To provide a more precise understanding of how the proposal would operate. the Visa Division of the Department of State has made a computation of the proposed new quotas. Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that a table be printed in the RECORD at this point which sets forth the present immigration quotas. average actual immigration by countries over the last 10 years. the new quotas provided under this bill. and the present number of registrants in oversubscribed quota areas. The table includes those counEurope: Austria --- . . . . . ..----------------------------------Belgium ................................... -------C zechoslovakia -------------------------------------Denmark ------------------------------------------Finland ................................-........... France --------------------------------------------Germany ..........................................