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Public Law 75–445

To permit the temporary entry into the United States under certain conditions of alien participants and officials of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Silver Jubilee Camp to be held in the United States in 1937.

Approved July 8, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To permit the temporary entry into the United States under certain conditions of alien participants and officials of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Silver Jubilee Camp to be held in the United States in 1937.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That alien Girl Guides and Girl Scouts participants, officials, and executives who are accredited members of delegations to the Silver Jubilee Camp to be held in the United States in 1937, all of whom are nonimmigrants, if otherwise admissible into the United States under the

Exemption from tax, etc.

39 Stat. 875.

8 U. S. C. § 132.

Visa, etc., fees waived.

immigration laws, shall be exempted from payment of the tax of $8 prescribed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917 and exempted from the fees prescribed by law to be collected in connection with executing an application for a visa and visaing the passport or other travel document of an alien for the purpose of entering

Passports.

the United States as a nonimmigrant, and such aliens shall not be required to present official passports issued by the governments to

Provisos.

Identification required.

which they owe allegiance: Provided, That aliens shall be in possession of official Girl Guide or Girl Scout identity cards issued by their own governments or issued by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts indicating their Girl Guide or Girl Scout status and nationality, and duly visaed without charge by American consular

Compliance with prescribed regulations.

officers abroad: And provided further, That such aliens shall comply with regulations not inconsistent with the foregoing provisions which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor and

Obtaining of visas by aliens.

Secretary of State: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall relieve an alien from being required to obtain a gratis nonimmigration visa if coming to the United States as a nonimmigrant, or an immigration visa if coming to the United States as an immigrant.

Sec. 2.

That such aliens shall be permitted free entry of their

Free entry of personal effects.

personal effects and their equipments to be used in connection with the Silver Jubilee Camp, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Approved, July 8, 1937.

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