Employment Restrictions for South Vietnamese Aliens

Kevin D. Rooney, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Administration, requested views concerning the continued employment of Hoang Ky Ly who had entered the United States as a student with nonimmigrant status, was later admitted for permanent residence, but was never "paroled" into the United States. The South Vietnamese alien could be employed during fiscal year 1977 despite the restriction in P.L. 94-419 which permitted employment only of South Vietnamese refugees paroled in the United States since an act for that year permitted such employment, and the legislative history does not indicate that the second act was intended to repeal the first. However, under terms of the only statute now applicable, the restriction would not allow for continued employment under these circumstances. GAO recommended clarifying this legislation.