The law. however. discriminated against women in that an alien wife preceding her husband could not confer preference quota status on him. and an American citizen wife. under the original version of the act. could only confer preference quota status on her alien husband. Subsequent amendments permitted the American citizen wife to confer nonquota status on her alien husband if marriage was contracted prior to the enactment of the respective amendments. These and other provisions of law discriminating against women remained in effect until the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Many. many have been the tragedies and cruelties and hardships of anxious immigrants waiting months and years and years at the consular offices throughout the world for visas to bring them to their dear ones in the United Stateswives to husbands. husbands to wives. children to parents. parents to children. brothers to sisters. and sisters to brothers. The families remained divided for indefinite periods all during these 40odd years that we have had this nationalorigins theory of immigration on our books. Now consider the irony of those socalled unused quotas. Britain. for example. as I said before. got some 65.000.
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