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![handle is hein.immigration/ajtimms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 731 CONGRESS j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES j REPORT
2d Session _ No. 871
ADJUSTMENT OF IMMIGRATION STATUS WHILE IN'
UNITED STATES
MARCH 5, 1934.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. DICKSTEIN, from the Committee on Immigration and Natural-
ization submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 8312]
The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 8312) to provide adjustment of status of cer-
tain aliens lawfully admitted without requirement of departure to
foreign country, having considered the same, reports it to the House
without amendments, and recommends that the bill do pass.
Under existing immigration laws, aliens lawfully admitted to the
United States are classed in two principle general groups (1) those
who are nonimnigrants, i.e. aliens legally here for temporary periods;
and (2) those who are immigrants, i.e. aliens legally here for permanent
residence.
There is at present no provision of the immigration laws whereby
aliens legally here as nommnmigrants, or here for temporary periods,
may have their status in this country changed to that of immigrants,
or here for permanent residence. Such a change now can be only
effected by the interested alien leaving the United States and there-
after applying to an American consul abroad for a new document
known as an immigration visa, which will permit return from
abroad for the purpose of being admitted here as an immigrant
coming for permanent residence.
This procedure compels the alien to spend unnecessary money for
a long steamship journey away from the United States and, later,
back to the United States (which money might properly be kept in
the United States if this round trip could be obviated under law)
and, in addition, subjects the interested alien to long waits abroad
until the American consul decides whether or not he (the consul) is
justified under law to issue an immigration visa.
Your committee has concluded that the provisions of this bill are
sound in policy for the public welfare and approves the proposal](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.immigration/ajtimms0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)