The House immigration Committee yesterday by a final vote reported favorably on the modified Johnson Bill to suspend immigration for two years, beginning ninety days after the enactment of the bill. The adoption of the measure has been urged as a relief for unemployment.
Non-quota immigrants and certain other categories would be exempt from the suspension feature, including the following quota preference immigrants, who will remain in the same category, but only to the extent of one-half of their quota: fathers, mothers, wives and minor children of alien residents who registered with American consuls for visas prior to the eleventh of this month. The bill also contains a proviso for the admission of husbands of American citizens by marriages which occurred prior to the eleventh of this month.
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