where immigration officers from the U.S. Immigration in Buffalo. N.Y.. interviewed and processed them for permanent residency. The entire processing was completed in less than 3 hours. Under normal conditions. each adult refugee would have had to have arranged for transportation to the Buffalo Office of Immigration accompanied by an interpreter at great personal expense and inconvenience. Instead. the Indochinese families were allowed to remain within their community. assisted by the Catholic charities staff. while the Government representatives traveled to them. I estimate that this arrangement within the community. in addition to the time and cost savings to the applicants. reduced the processing time and Government expense to a fraction of what it would have been. As it is estimated that there are over 2.000 Indochinese refugees in the Rochester area. there is no doubt the same arrangement will be considered in the future. This truly demonstrated the effectiveness of Joint communityGovernment efforts in behalf of citizens and citizens to be. As Director of the Buffalo INS office.
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