(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Congressman Dickstein’s bill to admit the wives and minor children of Rabbis, regardless of when they arrived in America, was ordered favorably reported by the House Immigration Committee. Up to this time, the immigration authorities have admitted only those relatives of rabbis who arrived after July 1, 1924 but not of those who arrived before. The House is expected to take action on the bill shortly.
The committee also favorably reported the Bacon Bill to restore citizenship to American women who married alien husbands and thereby lost their citizen status.
Congressman Dickstein’s bill includes a provision legalizing the admission of a small group of approximately eight aliens who arrived between May 26 and July 1, 1924, and were technically inadmissible because affected by the date when the present quota law went into operation. They were temporarily admitted and Dickstein’s Bill seeks to make their admission permanent. The report states that both provisions of the bill are amended to solve this purely technical hardship of the present law.
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