GAGLIOTI

Interim Decision #2282 MATTER OF GAGLIOTI In Section 245 Proceedings A-18597420 Decided by Regional Commissioner May 1, .1974 Applicant, a deaf mute, is not for that reason alone considered to be physically incapable of reading so as to come within the literacy requirement exemption of section 212(a)(25) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Since he is unable to read any language and is not within any of the other classes of aliens exempt under the Act from the literacy requirement, he is inadmissible under section 212(a)(25) of the Act, and, therefore, is statutorily ineligible for…