[PUBLIC-No. 464-68TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 11957] An Act To authorize the President in certain cases to modify visé fees Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding existing law fixing the fees to be collected for visés of passports of aliens and for executing applications for such visés, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, to the extent consistent with the public interest, to reduce such fees or to abolish them altogether, in the case of any class of aliens desiring to visit the United States who are not "immigrants" as defined in the Immigration Act of 1924, and who are citizens or subjects of countries which grant similar privileges to citizens of the United States of a similar class visiting such countries. Approved, February 25, 1925. (11) [H. R. 12495] An Act To regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives of the United States, and by such consul generals, consuls, or vice consuls when in charge, as the Secretary of State may designate, and by the chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States, and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify such. passports. SEC. 2. That the validity of a passport or visa shall be limited to a period of two years: Provided, That the Secretary of State may limit the validity of a passport or visa to a shorter period and that no immigration visa shall be issued for a longer period than that specified in the Immigration Act of 1924 or amendments thereto: And provided further, That a passport may be renewed without any additional charge under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, and at his discretion to bona fide teachers, but the final date of expiration shall not be more than four years from the original date of issue. SEC. 3. That whenever a fee is erroneously charged and paid for the issue of a passport to a person who is exempted from the payment of such a fee by section 1 of "An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," approved June 4, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 750), the Department of State is hereby authorized to refund to the person who paid such fee the amount thereof, and the money for that purpose is hereby authorized to be appropriated. SEC. 4. That section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act of June 14, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 386), and section 3 of "An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," approved June 4, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 750), except as hereinbefore provided are hereby repealed. Approved, July 3, 1926. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC-No. 563-70TH CONGRESS] Refund of passport fees erroneously charged and paid: For the refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920, fiscal years 1928. and 1929, $200. Approved, May 29, 1928. (13) [S. J. Res. 5] Joint Resolution Relating to the immigration of certain relatives of United States citizens and of aliens lawfully admitted to the United States. 66 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the Immigration Act of 1924 is amended by striking out the word or" at the end of subdivision (d) and by striking out the period at the end of subdivision (e) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word " or " and by adding after subdivision (e) a new subdivision to read as follows: 66 (f) A woman who was a citizen of the United States and who prior to September 22, 1922, lost her citizenship by reason of her marriage to an alien, but at the time of her application for an immigration visa is unmarried." SEC. 2. Subdivision (a) of section 4 of the Immigration Act of 1924 is amended to read as follows: "(a) An immigrant who is the unmarried child under twenty-one years of age, or the wife, of a citizen of the United States, or the husband of a citizen of the United States by a marriage occurring prior to June 1, 1928; " SEC. 3. Section 6 of the Immigration Act of 1924 is amended, to take effect July 1, 1928, to read as follows: July "SEC. 6. (a) Immigration visas to quota immigrants shall be issued in each fiscal year as follows: "(1) Fifty per centum of the quota of each nationality for such year shall be made available in such year for the issuance of immigration visas to the following classes of immigrants, without priority of preference as between such classes: (A) Quota immigrants who are the fathers or the mothers, or the husbands by marriage occurring after May 31, 1928, of citizens of the United States who are twenty-one years of age or over; and (B) in the case of any nationality the quota for which is three hundred or more, quota immigrants who are skilled in agriculture, and the wives, and the dependent children under the age of eighteen years, of such immigrants skilled in agriculture, if accompanying or following to join them. "(2) The remainder of the quota of each nationality for such year, plus any portion of the 50 per centum referred to in paragraph (1) not required in such year for the issuance of immigration visas to the classes specified in such paragraph, shall be made available in such year for the issuance of immigration visas to quota immigrants of such nationality who are the unmarried children under twentyone years of age, or the wives, of alien residents of the United States who were lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence. "(3) Any portion of the quota of each nationality for such year not required for the issuance of immigration visas to the classes specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be made available in such year for the issuance of immigration visas to other quota immigrants of such nationality. "(b) The preference provided in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) shall, in the case of quota immigrants of any nationality, be given in the calendar month in which the right to preference is established, if the number of immigration visas which may be issued in such month to quota immigrants of such nationality has not already been issued; otherwise, in the next calendar month." Approved, May 29, 1928. [PUBLIC NO. 488-71ST CONGRESS] An Act To provide for the renewal of passports. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes," approved July 3, 1926 (United States Code, Supplement III, title 22, section 217a), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That the validity of a passport or visa shall be limited to a period of two years: Provided, That the Secretary of State may limit the validity of a passport or visa to a shorter period and that no immigration visa shall be issued for a longer period than that specified in the Immigration Act of 1924 or amendments thereto: And provided further, That a passport may be renewed, upon the payment of $2 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, for periods of not to exceed two years each, but the final date of expiration shall not be more than six years from the original date of issue: And provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $5." Approved, July 1, 1930. |