Speech #890038186

The allocation of surplus numbers. however. would be subject to the preference categories now written into the law. The four preference classes. I might explain. are set up as follows: First preference goes to immigrants whose special skills are in short supply in the United States and would prove valuable to the country. I might point out. parenthetically. that 15 of this countrys Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and physics have been immigrants. Second preference is awarded to parents and unmarried. adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens. Third preference is reserved for brothers. sisters and married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens and their spouses and children.