Silva v. Tillinghast

MORTON, District Judge.

• This ease presents a legal question of some importance under the current Immigration Act (Act May 26, 1924 [8 USCA §§ 145, 146, 166, 167, 179, 201 et seq.]). The petitioner is the wife of one Santos, a resident alien. She is not within any of the excluded classes and appears to be entitled to admittance except for the quota provisions. She presented an immigration visa in the prescribed form issued by the American consul at Oporto, Portugal, certifying Eer as a Portuguese quota immigrant, who bad been given a preference because of Eer marriage to Santos.

Upon Eer…