Speech #880298894

Mr. Speaker. I have Introduced today an Immigration bill which is designed to facilitate and ex- for the issuance of immigrant visas to pedite the reuniting of families by creat- close relatives of U.S. citizens or lawful ing a quota reserve consisting of unused resident aliens and to highly skilled spequota numbers. Under my bill. the un- cialists whose services are urgently used quota numbers would be utilized needed in the United States. The size of the quota reserve will. o course. vary depending upon how man quota numbers remain unused at the em of each fiscal year. Generally. in th course of the last decade. the total of un used immigration quota numbers aver aged between 51.000 and 55.000 annually In the last fiscal year. 1963. the numbe: was 53.951. Thus. we know that unde: my proposed immigration legislation there is not and cannot be an annual in. crease of total immigration above tha which is provided by existing law. There are only 3 countries whicl have allotted to them. under the law. ax immigration quota consisting of ovei 7.000 numbers annually. The countrie. are: Great Britain. Germany. and Ireland. Those are the countries which dc not fully avail themselves of their allocations. On the other hand. all other immigration quotas number less than 7.000 annually and it is precisely for immigrantE chargeable to these small quotas that my bill will provide relief. Briefly. each quota country will be entitled to a percentage of the quota reserve equal to the percentage which such countrys regular quota bears to the unused numbers placed in the quota reserve. For example. if a countrys quota represents 5 percent of that total. the immigrants from that country would have access to 5 percent of the quota reserve. If the regular quota represents 10 percent of the quota reserveand this Is. approximately. the case with the Polish and Italian quotassuch country would have access to 10 percent of the quota reserve.