The House of Representatives passed to-day by 184 votes to 112 a bill which was already adopted previously in the Senate, exempting from the immigration quota the husbands of women, who are American citizens, regardless of the date of their marriage.
When the bill receives the signature of the President and enters into force, it will change the present conditions under which the non-quota status is granted only to husbands who married women who are American citizens before June 1928. The bill is also prospective, so that aliens marrying American women in future will by so doing obtain non-quota visas enabling them to enter America.
The passage of the bill was preceded by a heated debate, in which the anti-immigrationists tried to bring about its rejection, and there is much disappointment in their ranks because of the big majority in favour of the measure.
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