Mr. Speaker. recent information would indicate that Soviet authorities had lifted all major restrictions on emigration to Israel. However. the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has said that it had yet to receive any official confirmation from the Soviet Government that the education taxes for emigrants had been suspended indefinitely. It has been estimated that at least 1.000 Jews who have sought permission to emigrate to Israel were refused visas. regardless of the status of the education tax. The Soviets contend that 90 percent of Jewish applicants for emigration had been granted visas and that only a small percentage of intellectuals were being barred for state considerations. The exit tax depends on the immigrants degree of educationas much as $40.000. The few who manage to raise such sums did this either by means of loans from their families or through donations from relatives in Western countries. Mr.
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