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The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338) for the relief of Amin Bin Rejab, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill, as amended, do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the Attorney General be and he is hereby directed to record the lawful admission for permanent residence in the United States of Amin Bin Rejab as of September 1, 1937, at the port of Newport News, Va.

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of the bill is to grant the status of an immigrant admitted for permanent residence in the United States to Amin Bin Rejab, a native of Singapore and a British subject, who is the husband of a native-born citizen of the United States and the father of three native-born citizen children.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The pertinent facts in this case are set forth in a letter from the assistant to the Attorney General, dated September 5, 1947, to the chairman of the committee, which letter reads as follows:

Hon. EARL C. MICHENER,

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice concerning a bill (H. R. 338) for the relief of Amin Bin Rejab.

The bill would authorize and direct the Attorney General to permit Amin Bin Rejab, husband of an American citizen, to remain permanently in the United States notwithstanding the provisions of the immigration laws.

The records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of this Department disclose the alien is a 40-year old native of Singapore and a British citizen who last entered the United States at Newport News, Va., about August or September 1937, as a seaman and deserted. His father was a full-blooded Hawaiian and his mother a full-blooded Malayan. He has been unable to produce any evidence of his father's citizenship as the father died when the alien was a child and the only information concerning him was acquired from the mother, whose whereabouts are unknown, her last residence having been in Singapore. He married a native-born citizen of the United States in 1939 and has three citizen children. His family is entirely dependent upon him for support. He has been financially self-sustaining during his residence in this country, having been employed as a porter in a restaurant for the last 6 years. He registered under the Alien Registration Act and the Selective Service Act, his classification under the latter act having been class 4-A. He has no criminal record, and the testimony of his employers and fellow union members indicate him to be a person of good moral character. On October 8, 1946, he was found subject to deportation in that at the time of entry he was not in possession of an immigration visa and was ineligible to citizenship. He was given until July 1, 1947, in which to depart voluntarily from the United States. He has been unable to adjust his status because he is ineligible to citizenship.

In view of the fact that this alien's deportation would work a serious economic hardship upon his dependent wife and children, the Department of Justice finds no objection to the enactment of the bill.

The Director of the Bureau of the Budget advises that there is no objection to the submission of this report.

Sincerely yours,

DOUGLAS W. MCGREGOR,
The Assistant to the Attorney General.

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