Soviet Refugees: The Continuing Dilemma

This article, which appeared in the GAO Journal, No. 9, Summer 1990, discusses application and processing procedures for refugees wishing to emigrate to the United States, focusing on how the Soviet Union's significantly loosened restraints on such refugees have affected U.S. procedures, ceilings on the number of Soviet immigrants, backlogs of prospective applicants, and the previous U.S. policy of admitting all Soviet emigres.