Evangelos Foradis, A/K/A Angelo Foradis v. Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether an application for suspension of deportation filed October 16, 1952, which was subsequent to the date of enactment but prior to the effective date of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 1 should be acted upon by the Attorney General under the powers conferred upon him by the Immigration Act of 1917 2 or under the more stringent provisions of the 1952 Act. Under the savings clause of the latter, namely, section 405(a), which is set forth in pertinent part in the margin, 3 the taking effect of the 1952 Act shall not be construed to affect any…