Mr. Speaker. I am today introducing a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the approval of visa applications submitted by foreign nationals. The purpose of my bill is to moderate the bureaucratic arrogance displayed by some consular officials overseas not only to foreign nationals seeking to visit our country. but also to their friends or relatives in this country. including Members of Congress who may seek to lend a helping hand in their behalf. Under the present law. a foreign citizen who is otherwise eligible for a visa must establish to the satisfaction of the consular official that he intends to visit this country only temporarily and does not seek to become an immigrant. The burden is on the alien. under the law. to establish his nonimmigrant status as the result of a statutory presumption found in section 1184(b). title 8 United States Code. This is a salutory provision of the law. if it is administered reasonably.
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