Selective Immigration Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 2365 and S. 2576, a Bill to Limit the Immigration of Aliens Into the United States, and to Provide a System of Selection in Connection Therewith, and for Other Purposes. February 13, 14, 20, 21, March 8, 13, 14, April 7 and 8, 1924 |
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... undesirables of Europe into America . That is the difference between the certificate that I suggest and the certificate that is offered in these other bills . Senator REED . Would you require a visé to be 2 SELECTIVE IMMIGRATION ...
... undesirables of Europe into America . That is the difference between the certificate that I suggest and the certificate that is offered in these other bills . Senator REED . Would you require a visé to be 2 SELECTIVE IMMIGRATION ...
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... visé . Senator REED . You might as well combine the visé function with the certificate function . Secretary DAVIS . That is my opinion . His certificate is viséed . He uses the passport to get out of his own country . Senator KING . If ...
... visé . Senator REED . You might as well combine the visé function with the certificate function . Secretary DAVIS . That is my opinion . His certificate is viséed . He uses the passport to get out of his own country . Senator KING . If ...
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... visé certificates rather than immigration certificates- To ( 1 ) husband , wife , and unmarried children under 18 years of age of an alien ( a ) who has been legally admitted to the United States , ( b ) has resided in the United States ...
... visé certificates rather than immigration certificates- To ( 1 ) husband , wife , and unmarried children under 18 years of age of an alien ( a ) who has been legally admitted to the United States , ( b ) has resided in the United States ...
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... visé certificate , as it is termed here -- and I think that is a great improvement over the House bill in providing that the vise and certificate be combined in one , although that is more for the State Department than it is for the ...
... visé certificate , as it is termed here -- and I think that is a great improvement over the House bill in providing that the vise and certificate be combined in one , although that is more for the State Department than it is for the ...
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... visé and the plan should prevail that that precede the passport , there might be such a long time intervening between the visé and the obtaining of the passport as to prevent the immigrant from reaching here within the period named ...
... visé and the plan should prevail that that precede the passport , there might be such a long time intervening between the visé and the obtaining of the passport as to prevent the immigrant from reaching here within the period named ...
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 48 - ... name and complete address; whether ever before in the United States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane...
Page 179 - ... who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled...
Page 179 - States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described ; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 150 - SEC. 16. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, including any transportation company, or the owner, master, agent, charterer, or consignee of any vessel, to bring to the United States by water from any place outside thereof (other than foreign contiguous territory...
Page 202 - States to another through foreign contiguous territory, (5) a bona fide alien seaman serving as such on a vessel arriving at a port of the United States and seeking to enter temporarily the United States solely in the pursuit of his calling as a seaman...
Page 162 - Labor shall by regulation prescribe ; and after the arrival of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to report to such immigration officer, in writing, as soon as discovered, all cases in which any such alien has illegally landed from, the vessel, giving a description of such alien, together with any information likely to lead to his apprehension ; and before the departure of any such vessel...
Page 11 - An immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States has been, and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of, carrying on the vocation of minister of any religious denomination, or professor of a college, academy, seminary, or university and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompany or following to join him...
Page 48 - ... children, if any; calling or occupation; personal description (including height, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and marks of identification...
Page 202 - The admission to the United States of an alien excepted from the class of immigrants by clause (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of section 3, or declared to be a non-quota immigrant by subdivision (e) of section 4, shall be for such time as may be by regulations prescribed...
Page 179 - Whoever knowingly makes under oath any false statement with respect to a material fact in any application, affidavit, or other document required by the immigration laws or regulations prescribed thereunder, or knowingly presents any such application, affidavit, or other document containing any such false statement — "Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.