Mr. Chairman. this amendment is designed to correct what obviously is a simple oversight of legislative draftmanship. The Immigration and Naturalization Service in recent years has been faced with a recurring problem. Nationals of Central and South America have been circumventing the letter and the spirit of the immigration law. Instead of following the formal procedures required of an intending immigrant. they merely pursue the simple course of obtaining a visitors visa and. once physically present in the United States. make application under section 245 of the act for adjustment of status to that of permanent resident alien. Such conduct is unfair to other Western Hemisphere aliens seeking permanent resident status and citizenship through the intending immigrant procedures. The bill before us undertakes to correct that problem. Section 13. subsection (c). on page 40. prohibits the use of section 245 procedures to aliens described in section 101 (a) (27).
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