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TAI MUI v. ESPERDY

Nos. 133, 162, 154, Dockets 30621, 30622, 30552.

371 F.2d 772 (1966)

TAI MUI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. P. A. ESPERDY, as District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the District of New York, Defendant-Appellee. CHAN HING and Lai Cho, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. P. A. ESPERDY, as District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the District of New York, Defendant-Appellee. WOO CHENG HWA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jules E. Coven, New York City (Lebenkoff & Coven, New York City) (Abraham Lebenkoff, New York City, of counsel), for appellants Tai Mui, Chan Hing and Lai Cho.

Martin Burroughs, New York City (Andrew Reiner, New York City), for petitioner Woo Cheng Hwa.

Francis J. Lyons, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern District of New York) (James G. Greilsheimer, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee and respondent.

Before FRIENDLY, SMITH and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

These cases present questions, of first impression for us, of the interpretation of the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965, 79 Stat. 911, 912-13, according certain refugees preferences for lawful admission.

I.

The 1965 statute had "as its primary objective the abolishment of the national origins quota system for the allocation of immigrant visas and the substitution of a new system of allocation...

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