United States ex rel. Variano v. Curran

(after stating the facts as above). The relator maintains in effect that the wife of any resident alien must be admitted regardless of the Quota Law, whether or not *469at the time, of his entry he was within any of the classes excepted from exclusion in section 3 of the Act of 1917 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 42891,4b), or in section' 2 (d) of the Quota Law (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 42891/^a). The most plausible argument for this position is that such an alien is always within an excepted class, because he may at any time leave the United States on a temporary visit, and…