NAJAR’s Empirical Analysis
1971
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cited by 1 later decisions
July 1974
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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“. . . We concur with the special'inquiry officer's opinion that the nonavailability of an immigrant quota number under the Western Hemisphere, and the need to wait some fourteen months for the assignment of a number, is an element of extreme hardship and is to be distinguished from the matter of being ineligible to obtain an immigrant visa.”
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