Volume 50 · 165
Public Law 75–182
To authorize the deportation of aliens who secured preference-quota or non-quota visas through fraud by contracting marriage solely to fraudulently expedite admission to the United States, and for other purposes.
Approved May 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the deportation of aliens who secured preference-quota or non-quota visas through fraud by contracting marriage solely to fraudulently expedite admission to the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subdivision (f) of section 9 of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended (43 Stat. 158; U. S. C., title 8, sec. 209, subdivision (f) ), is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 9.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to entitle an immigrant, in respect of whom a petition under this section is granted, either to enter the United States as a nonquota immigrant if, upon arrival in the United States, he is found not to be a nonquota
Preference-quota immigrants.
immigrant, or to enter the United States as a preference-quota immigrant if, upon arrival in the United States, he is found not to be a preference-quota immigrant.”
Sec. 2.
That subdivision (a) of section 13 of the Immigration Act
Exclusion from the United States.
of 1924, as amended (43 Stat. 161; U. S. C., title 8, sec. 213 (a)), is amended to read as follows:
“No immigrant shall be admitted to the United States unless he
Immigrants excepted from.
(1) has an unexpired immigration visa or was born subsequent to the issuance of the immigration visa of the accompanying parent; (2) is of the nationality specified in the visa in the immigration visa; (3) is a nonquota immigrant if specified in the visa in the immigration visa as such; (4) is a preference-quota immigrant if specified in the visa in the immigration visa as such; and (5) is otherwise admissible under the immigration laws.”
Sec. 3.
That any alien who at any time after entering the United
Deportation of aliens for unlawful securing of visas through marriage.
States is found to have secured either non-quota or preference-quota visa through fraud, by contracting a marriage which, subsequent to entry into the United States, has been judicially annulled retroactively to date of marriage, shall be taken into custody and
deported pursuant to the provisions of section 14 of the Immigration Act of 1924 on the ground that at time of entry he was not entitled to admission on the visa presented upon arrival in the United States. This section shall be effective whether entry was made before or after
Retroactive operation of section.
the enactment of this Act.
When it appears that the immigrant fails or refuses to fulfill his
Breach of marital agreement.
promises for a marital agreement made to procure his entry as an immigrant he then becomes immediately subject to deportation.
Approved, May 14, 1937.