| Item Description: | Consists of nine sections: (1) introduction; (2) documents required of aliens, including immigrants, nonimmigrants, and Chinese, entering American territory; (3) nonimmigrants, covering the issue and refusal of passport visas and transit certificates, as well as seamen and crew-list visas and aliens coming under treaties of commerce and navigation; (4) registration of intending immigrants; (5) application for and issuance of immigration visas, covering examination of applicants, supporting documents, identification cards, and visa refusal; (6) nonquota immigrants, including petitions of relatives, returning aliens, ministers, and professors; (7) quota immigrants, such as skilled agriculturalists; (8) quota control, with reports of registered demand; and (9) exclusion of aliens ineligible to citizenship and aliens deported from the United States. |
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