The Congressional Immigration Committee yesterday reported unanimously in favor of the Dickstein Bill which will permit naturalized citizens to bring their parents, if over sixty years of age, into the United States from foreign countries even if the immigration quotas for those countries have already been filled. It is not as yet known when the measure will reach the House for consideration.
Another Dickstein bill, which would automatically grant citizenship to the children of American women who marry foreigners, or of foreign women who have become naturalized citizens, was defeated by the Immigration Committee by a vote of 15 to 4. The passage of the bill was anxiously desired by women who have children living in other countries, and are unable to bring them here because of restrictions. Under the present law, citizenship is granted to children in the case of the father being a citizen, through naturalization or marriage.
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