Any of those who have concerns or fears that such an application would have adverse impacts on his or her family in China need not apply and need not change their status In any way whatsoever. That will be a decision that each student makes for himself or herself. This. like the MitchellDole amendment. waives the 2year foreign residence requirement for J visa holders who apply for permanent residence. - It does something else which was not covered. perhaps inadvertently. by the MitchellDole amendment. It provides that mere membership in the Communist Party of the Peoples Republic of Chinawhich. of course. is a membership which. particularly some of the older students hold simply as a condition of their having been able to come here at allabsent significant and active participation or involvement within the past 5 years. does not preclude a grant of permanent residence. However. before being granted that right. any PRC national must terminate any membership in the Communist Party of the PRC and must expressly renounce communism.