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" WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. Huspaxp. There is no difference. The country of birth,
ander the present quota system, follows an immigrant as long as he
ives.
Mr. Box. That is, under the general quota law we have now and
ander both the proposed bills?
Mr. HusBanp. I don’t see that either bill changes that in any
respect.
Mr. Gieson. That would be continued in this bill?
Mr. Hussanp. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenkins, There was an inquiry made a day or two ago.
Jee if I did not give the right advice: Suppose a man is born in Italy
and he has come to Canada and has been naturalized in Canada and
has lived there 25 years, we will say, and enjoyed all the rights of citizenship
 of that Dominion. If he wants to come into the United
States he comes in as an Italian immigrant?
Mr. HusBanDp. Yes.
Mr. Jenkins. And properly credited to the Italian qiota?
Mr. Hussanp. And properly charged to the Italian quota.
Mr. Jenkins. Let me ask you, as a matter of procedure and
practice, what would he be compelled to do under the regulations of
the State Department or the Italian department? Would he have to
20 clear back to Italy and fall in line and make his application?
Mr. Huseanp. No. Quota immigration visas are available at any
American consulate. I think I am right in saying that. A person
born in Germany or Russia or any other country might get a quota
immigration visa at an American consulate in China.
Mr. Box. That accounts for some of those countries over there
appearing in these reports as having quotas when in another sense
they have no quotas?
Mr. HusBanp. That is true. The number of immigrants coming
from Great Britain, for example, or England, is very much less than
the quota allotted to that territory. The quotas are used, nevertheless,
 by immigrants of British birth ceming from other countries.
Mr. Jenkins. Getting off the question for my own benefit along
this line, let me ask this question: Suppose &amp; man is in this country
from Germany as a visitor or he has come in as a mechanic, and he
has been here, we will say, 12 months. Now he wants to become a
citizen of the United States. Under our regulations he may go back
to Germany. Will it be possible for him to go to any other American
consulate anywhere else without going clear back to Germany?
Mr. Hussanp. If he goes voluntarily, he may go anywhere he
chooses to go and apply for a visa at any consulate of his choice.
Mr. Box. That is the present system?
Mr. Hussanp. That is the present system; yes.
Mr. Simmons. What is the practice of determining the place of an
applicant who could come under, say, the Italian quota and makes
his application in Canada, when another one EN his application
in an American consulate in some other country? What is the
practice in determining the place of the various applicants on the list?
Mr. Huseanp. | am answering questions which concern the Department
 of State, and two distinguished represeiftatives of that
department are here. The quota of each country is controlled from
a central consulate, as, for example, in the case of Great Britain, the
quota is controlled from the consulate general in London, and, as IT