Mr. Speaker. House Resolution 877 provides an open rule with 1 hour of general debate for consideration of H.R. 9615 providing for availability of additional immigration visas. Because there are no cost estimates provided in the report. points of order are waived for failure to comply with clause 7 of rule XIII. The purposes of H.R. 9615 are to make additional special immigrant visas available annually to each country of the Eastern Hemisphere and to reduce the backlog in visa issuance to brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. This is to remove two inequities which have developed since the inactment of the 1965 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. The additional visas available annually to each of the countries would be 75 percent of the 195564 average of immigrant visas issued. less visas issued each year under the permanent provisions of the act. not to exceed 7.500 visas per country per fiscal year. Mr. Speaker.
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