A proposal to utilize unused immigration quotas and the institution of a system which would permit the monthly carry-over of unfilled quotas was made here today by Abram Orlow, an immigration law authority who presented his proposal as a spokesman for B’nai B’rith at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee.
“The benefits of such a system are patent, Orlow stated. “First it would insure full utilization of existing quotas. Secondly it would take into account the factor of demand for visas in the various countries. Thirdly, it would tend to end the abound system under which many would be immigrants meeting all the tests of the 1917 Immigration Act are compelled to wait many years because their country’s quota has teen exhausted.”
He advocated the creation of a federal “Court of Immigration Appeals” and of a single government agency which would combine immigration and visa-granting function “Under the existing system,” he said “there is no procedure to assure a fair and impartial determination on questions of fact affecting the immigration status of an applicant for admission to this country A statutory Court of Immigration Appeals would fill this gap and insure fair and impartial treatment of all would-be immigrants,” he said.
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