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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from the United States, whether or not you have a permit to depart, until you have been notified that this order has been revoked...
...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...
...adequate reporting job . . . without the assistance of a trained magazine journalist or of a man who could speak and read the Russian language." Without stomach for "being at the complete mercy of [a Soviet] interpreter," Mrs. Roosevelt added: "I feel that the Soviet officials, in not granting a visa for a reporter to accompany me, are trying to force me to go to Russia on their terms and are . . . treating me the same way they tried to treat our Government and our allies at Geneva...
...Gubser proposals would remove the unnecessary restrictions on acceptable men. The first calls for a prompt review by the Consular officer of any temporary visa for a technological, teaching, or scientific purpose. This is aimed at doing away with the present damaging delays...
...other provision would amend the law by allowing the Secretary of State to review a refused visa, or to give a board of scientists and others the reviewing power. This board would weigh the scientist as a security risk against the contribution he might make to the country...