A bill authorizing the refund of visa fees to all those who made application for visas or to whom a visa was issued between July 1, 1923 and June 30, 1924 and who never proceeded to the United States or were excluded because of the exhaustion of the quota from their country or who failed to have an immigration visa as required by the immigration act of 1924 was introduced yesterday in Congress by Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the House Committee on Immigration.
This bill is obviously introduced in order to relieve the American government of moral responsibilities to those immigrants who received visas but were not admitted on account of the 1924 immigration act intervening between the time the visa was issued and the time they set out for the United States. The bill is also apparently intended to defeat one of the proposed bills of Congressman Dickstein which asks for the admission of those immigrants who received visas but were not admitted because of the 1924 act.
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