Moreover. Wilfredo was graduated from college with a degree in business administration and has achieved skills that would enable him to contribute greatly to the benefit and welfare of our country. Yet. despite all this. there is no hope for his now obtaining U.S. permanent residence under the regular immigration laws. His misfortune is that he happened to be born in the Philippines. which. though under the American flag at the time. later became independent. and as such. it was assigned an annual national origins quota based on the proportion of persons of Filipino ancestry found in the U.S. population of 1920. 15 years before Wilfredo Emano was born. Which is to say. simply. that the Philippine annual quota is the minimum quota of 100. is heavily oversubscribed. and stands as an insurmountable barrier to the regular admission of the Wilfredo Emanos of this world for U.S. residence and citizenship. Mr.
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