Interim Decision #1427 

MATTErt or ILIDDALA 

In Section 212(e) Proceedings 

A-14220335 

Decided by District Director December 9, 1964 

Application for waiver of the two-year-foreign-residence requirement of section 212(e), Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, is granted an 

exchange visitor alien, a research economist in the held of economic statistics and econometrics, whose continued presence in the United States is 

. deemed in the public interest since the loss of his services through compliance with the requirement would be detrimental to a research program of 

official interest to the Department of Defense. 

The subject, a single male, is a native and citizen of Thrlio and his 

last foniign residence was in that country. He entered the United 

States on June 22, 1960 as an exchange visitor, sponsored by the 

University of Chicago under Exchange Program P4-100, and was 

granted extensions of stay as a participant in that program to March 

30, 1965. Under the provisions of section 212(e) of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act, as amended, he is not eligible to apply for an 

immigrant visa or permanent residence in the United Stites until 

he has resided in the country of his nationality or last residence, or 

in another acceptable foreign country, for two years following. departure from the United States, or has been granted a waiver of the 

two-year period of foreign residence. 

The subject is a research economist in ;the field of economic statistics and econometrics. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1955 from the University of Andhra in India, his master's 

degree in statistics in 1951 from the University of Bombay, and his 

doctor's degree in economics in 1963 from the University of Chicago. 

He has been emiiloyed as an assistant professor of economics at Stanford University sine September 1963 under a practical training 

program. The university is anxious to retain his services for an 

important teaching and research position in the Department of Economics, where he devotes a substantial portion of his time to research 

on an Office of Naval Research project on "efficiency of decision mak82 
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ing in economic systems," a program of work concerned with several 

questions of considerable importance for Department of Defense 

planning and programming in research and engineering, and in procurement, and for the operation of the United States economy. His 

research bears particularly on the measurement of productivity 

growth and on the effects of technological progress and change on 

the expansion of employment opportunities and income distribution. 

In leis teaching assignments he will be concerned with courses in 

economic statistics and econometrics and supervising the work of 

graduate students in econometric techniques. Operations researeh 

analysts trained in these fields are in critically short supply and 

greatly in demand'by Defense offices and Defense contractors. 

The Department of Defense is requesting that the subject be granted a waiver of the foreign residence requirement on the ground that 

the loss of his services through compliance with the requireinent 

would lie clearly detrimental to a research program of great official 

interest to that Department. The Secretary of State has reviewed 

the request and recommends that the waiver be granted. From the 

record it is concluded that the subject's continued presence in the 

United States is in the public interest. Eligibility for the waiver 

has been established. 

ORDER: It is ordered that the two-year period , of foreign residence required by section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality 

Act, as amended be waived. 

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