It is a situation in which the sons by and large have distinguished themselves by service in the armed service of our country and the parent by reason of this language disability is unable to become a citizen. The law presently does provide. and this is in the present law as of December 24. 1952. that if that individual has reached the age of 50 and has been here for 20 years previous to that. the English language requirement is waived. In other respects. if I may add to that which has already been said in response to the gentlemans question. about whether or not this is going to advance anybody in the preference category. the affirmative action of the House in this legislation would not add an additional incoming immigrant at all in the particular preference categories that are affected by the passage of this legislation. It is controlled by the present law. Ten percent of the figure is allocated to the fourthpreference provision and there would be no acceleration. They would takeand perhaps the gentlemans query would be to this pointthey would take perhaps the number of somebody they had been waiting behind previously as a nonpreference visa applicant and they would go over ahead of that individual as a fourthpreference visa applicant in the event that the parents were naturalized citizens.
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