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"SEC. 201. (a) The annual quota of any quota area shall be the same quota heretofore determined under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952: Provided, That the minimum quota for any quota area shall be two hundred: Provided further, That beginning with the first fiscal year commencing after the enactment of this Act and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years the annual quota of every quota area shall be reduced by 20 per centum of its present number for each such fiscal year. The quota numbers so deducted from quotas of quota areas shall be added to the quota reserve established by subsection (f) of this section and shall be available for distribution in accordance with the provisions thereof."

SEC. 2. Section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 175; 8 U.S.C. 1151) is amended by adding the following additional subsection:

"(f) Quota numbers made available at the commencement of any fiscal year as a result of the reduction of the annual quota of any quota areas pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, together with quota numbers not issued or otherwise used during the previous fiscal year, shall then be made available (1) during the five fiscal years following the passage of this Act, to quota immigrants, if otherwise admissible under the provisions of this Act, who are unable to obtain prompt issuance of visas due to oversubscription of their quotas or subquotas as determined by the Secretary of State, and (2), thereafter, to quota immigrants if otherwise admissible under the provisions of this Act. These quota numbers shall be allocated within the percentage limitations and in the order of priority specified in section 203 without regard to the quota to which the alien is chargeable: Provided, however, That the combined number of quota numbers issued to any quota area in any year,

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SEC. 201. (a) The annual quota for any quota area shall be one-sixth of 1 per centum of the number of inhabitants in the continental United States in 1920, which number, except for the purpose of computing quotas for quota areas within the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be the same number heretofore determined under the provisions of section 11 of the Immigration Act of 1924, attributable by national origin to such quota area: Provided, That the quota existing for Chinese persons prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall be continued, and, except as otherwise provided in section 202(e), the minimum quota for any quota area shall be one hundred.

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under the provisions of this subsection and subsection (a) of this section, shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total quota numbers authorized for that year: Provided further, That in no case shall this limitation operate to reduce any quota in any of the five fiscal years following the enactment of this Act by more than the 20 per centum specified in subsection (a) of this section: And provided further, That the President may, after consultation with the Immigration Board, reserve

"(1) not to exceed 50 per centum of such numbers for allocation to quota immigrants, if otherwise admissible under the provisions of this Act, whose admission is determined by him to be required (A) to avoid undue hardship, resulting from the reduction of annual quotas pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, which is not otherwise avoided under the provisions of this subsection, and (B) in the national security interest of the United States: Provided, That the limitation on immigration from any single country in any year shall not apply to visas issued under this clause; and

"(2) not to exceed 20 per centum of such numbers for allocation to quota immigrants, if otherwise admissible under the provisions of this Act, whose admission will further the traditional policy of the United States of offering asylum and refuge to persons oppressed or persecuted, or threatened with oppression or persecution, because of their race, color, religion, national origin, adherence to democratic beliefs, or their opposition to totalitarianism or dictatorship, and to persons uprooted by natural calamity or military operations who are unable to return to their usual place of abode. After consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of State shall establish by regulation the requirements for qualification within this class, with reference to current world conditions.

In no case shall the authority to reserve such numbers, or the limitation on the combined number of quota numbers to be issued to any quota area in any year, operate so as to require that authorized quota numbers be unused.'

SEC. 3. Section 201(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 176; 8 U.S.C. 1151 (c)) is amended to read as follows:

"There shall be issued to quota immigrants chargeable to any quota (1) no more immigrant visas in any fiscal year

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(c) There shall be issued to quots immigrants chargeable to any quota (1) no more immigrant visas in any fiscal

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than the quota for such year, and (2) in any calendar month of any fiscal year, no more immigrant visas than 10 per centum of the quota for such year in addition to that portion of the quota authorized for issuance but not issued during any preceding calendar month or months of the same fiscal year; except that during the last two months of any fiscal year immigrant visas may be Issued without regard to the 10 per centum limitation contained herein.'

SEC. 4. (a) Section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 176; 8 U.S.C. 1152(a)) is amended by deleting paragraph (5) thereof.

(b) Section 202(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 177; 8 U.S.C. 1152(b)) is repealed.

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year than the quota for such year, and (2) in any calendar month of any fiscal year, no more immigrant visas than 10 per centum of the quota for such year; except that during the last two months of any fiscal year immigrant visas may be issued without regard to the 10 per centum limitation contained herein.

(5) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this subsection, any alien who is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to the AsiaPacific triangle defined in subsection (b) of this section, unless such alien is entitled to a nonquota immigrant status under paragraph (27) (A), (27) (B), (27) (D), (27) (E), (27) (F), or (27) (G) of section 101 (a) shall be chargeable to a quota as specified in subsection (b) of this section: Provided, That the child of an alien defined in section 101(a) (27 (C), if accompanying or following to join him, shall be classified under section 101 (a) (27) (C), notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.

(b) With reference to determination of the quota to which shall be chargeable an immigrant who is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to the AsiaPacific triangle comprising all quota areas and all colonies and other dependent areas situate wholly east of the meridian sixty degrees east of Greenwich, wholly west of the meridian one hundred and sixty-five degrees west, and wholly north of the parallel twentyfive degrees south latitude

(1) there is hereby established, in addition to quotas for separate quota areas comprising independent countries, self-governing dominions, and territories under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations situate wholly within said Asia-Pacific triangle, an Asia-Pacific quota of one hundred annually, which quota shall not be subject to the provisions of subsection (e);

(2) such immigrant born within a separate quota area situate wholly within such Asia-Pacific triangle shall not be chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota, but shall be chargeable to the quota for the separate quota area in which he was born;

(3) such immigrant born within a colony or other dependent area situate wholly within said Asia-Pacific tri

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(c) Section 202(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 177; 8 U.S.C. 1152(c)) is redesignated section 202(b) and is amended to read as follows:

"Any immigrant born in a colony or other component or dependent area of a governing country for which no separate or specific quota has been established, unless a nonquota immigrant as provided in section 101(a) (27) of this Act, shall be chargeable to the quota of the governing country, except that no more persons born in any such colony or other component or dependent area overseas from the governing country shall be chargeable to the quota of its governing country in any one year than a number which bears the same relation to the quota of its governing country as the number two hundred bears to the quota of the governing country prior to the enactment of this Act."

(d) Section 202(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 178; 8 U.S.C. 1152(d)) is redesignated section 202 (c).

(e) Section 202(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 178), as amended (75 Stat. 654), (8 U.S.C. 1152(e)) is redesignated section 202(d) and is further amended by substituting "section 202(b)” for “section 202(c) (1)” after the words "issued under."

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angle shall be chargeable to the AsiaPacific quota;

(4) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to not more than one separate quota area, situate wholly within the Ásia-Pacific triangle, shall be chargeable to the quota of that quota ares:

(5) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to one or more colonies or other dependent areas situate wholly within the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota;

(6) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to peoples indigenous to two or more separate quota areas situate wholly within the Asia-Pacific triangle, or to a quota area or areas and one or more colonies and other dependent areas situate wholly therein, shall be chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota.

(c) Any immigrant born in a colony or other component or dependent area of a governing country for which no separate or specific quota has been established, unless a nonquota immigrant as provided in section 101(a)(27) of this Act, shall be chargeable to the quota of the governing country, except that (1) not more than one hundred persons born in any one such colony or other component or dependent ares overseas from the the governing country shall be chargeable to the quota of its governing country in any one year, and (2) any such immigrant, if attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be chargeabl to a quota as provided in subsection (b. of this section.

(d) The provision of an immigrations quota for a quota area shall not const.tute recognition by the United States t the political transfer of territory front one country to another, or recognitioərə of a government not recognized by theUnited States.

(e) After the determination of quotahas been made as provided in sectio 201, revision of the quotas shall be mad、 by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General jointly, whenever necessary, to providfor any change of boundaries resultin