Word: huang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yuan Huang, Research Fellow in Chemistry at the University, is a man who may never return to his home, his wife, and his friends. He, and four thousand other Chinese nationals in this country who share his fate, are the living casualties of a new kind of war: the diplomatic Cold War with Communist China. All these men have been trained in the technical sciences, and while few of them have done secret research, the government holds that their return to the Chinese mainland would be "prejudicial to the national interest...
...Huang is a virtual prisoner today because of the skills he has acquired in the United States. Away from his home for over seven years, he has been with his wife for only three months during this period. She is now in Hong Kong outside the Communist orbit, but Huang has little hope of cutting through the tangle of statutes which separate them. He has lived the last two years, and perhaps will live his whole life fighting to rejoin his wife and family. So far, he has accomplished nothing...
...Huang, like most of the other Chinese in his position, came here as a student. In 1949, he entered the University, and two years later, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry. No longer able to remain here on his student visa, he made his first appeal for emigration papers. The answer was unexpected: "Pursuant to the authority contained in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . . . you are hereby ordered not to depart or attempt to depart from the United States, whether or not you have a permit to depart, until you have been notified that this order has been revoked...
With little hope of leaving the country, Huang then tried to get his wife in. Since she had gone to Hong Kong before the Communists closed the borders of China, she was able to secure a Nationalist passport. Mrs. Huang also gained admission to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. All this done, they tried to obtain the necessary student visa from the State Department. Her application was denied. She was a "non-bonafide non-immigrant." Because Huang could not leave the country, the State Department feared that she would remain here with him after her course of study...
...Next, Huang applied for permanent residence papers, under which his wife could have entered the United States through preferential immigration quotas. With the help of Professor Fieser and other University men, he filed an appeal for permanent residence. The local and Washington Immigration Offices approved and sent it to Montreal for signing--formal application requiring that the applicant sign in a foreign country. But here again his standing as "150X" prevented him from taking the last small step toward reunion. He could not leave the country for even the few hours necessary to sign the formal application...