Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-10-01 / 10. szám

FRATERNITY

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Christians, and fought mightily in defence of those penned within the walls of the Budapest ghetto, awaiting their turn for deportation. Two young ministers managed to bribe their way daily into the ghetto, and there they conducted so many services, prayer meetings and Bible classes that they lost all count of the number. Many a condemned Jewish-Christian went to his death with a song in his heart through the devoted labours of those young Reformed ministers and others. Other ministers in their parishes hid Jews in the belfries of their churches for months on end, of course at the risk of their lives; thousands of ordinary church folk kept Jews hidden in their wardrobes and closets, or took Jewish children into their homes to prevent their deportation. Others again were highly involved in the underground resistance movement. So it was that even the waverers came in solidly with the Reformed Church in its strong defence of the Jew.

(To be continued)

CAN OUR ADOPTED SON COME TO THE U. S. AS A NONQUOTA IMMIGRANT?

Question: We are American citizens and have recently adopted the son of distant relatives abroad who are unable to give the child a proper education. We are anxious to bring the boy to the United

States, but both the child and his parents come from a country with an over-subscribed quota. Can we bring him over under the non-quota provision of the immigration law, since he is now our child according to the law of his country of birth?

Answer: Unfortunately, the fact that he is an adopted child under

the law of his country of birth does not bring him within the definition of an adopted child as used in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Adopted children are not eligilbe for preferential quota status unless the child has lived with the adopting parents for at least two years and has been in their legal custody for that period. Neither a foreign court nor an American court would be able to waive that

requirement. Although the two-year residence requirement is not applicable in the case of adoptions under the so-called orphan adoption statute, this is not applicable in your case because the child you adopted is not an orphan. Your adopted son will therefore have to await his turn on the quota list.