Matter of ERGINSOY

Interim Decision 44458 IIan= or Enamor In Section 212(e) Proceedings A.-18808086 Decided by District Director January 29, ,1965 Waiver of the 2-year-foreign-realdence requirement of motion 212(e), Immigra- don and Nationality Act, as amended, is granted an exchange visitor alien; a 'research physicist, and his dependent wife and 2 minor children, since his compliance with. the requirement world be detrimental. to a program of official interest to the Atomic Einergp Commission and the Department of State has recommended favorably in the matter, Dr. Erginsoy, a, forty-year-old native and citizen of Turkey, en- tered(cid:127) the United States as an exchange visitor, with his dependent wife and two.unmarried, minor children, on July 6, 1962. He has since been a participant in Exchange Visitor Program -No. P—I-1957, -sponsored by Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York- Upon his arrival, he commenced a one-year appointment as Visiting Associate' Physicist in the Physics Department of the Laboratory. On -July 1, 1963, Dr. ErginsOy accepted a two-year appointment as Associate Physicist on the Laboratory's Scientific Staff. This ap- pointment is currently in'effect.

Dr. Erginsoy came to the Brookhaven National' Laboratory after completing a Iwo-year appointment at 'the Ilternational Atomic (cid:127) 'Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. He states that he is not obliga- ; ted by employment commitments of any kind. Dr. Erginsoy's present sponsor wishes to retain his services as a ' research physicist for an indefinite period of time. The Atomic Energy Commission requested the Department of State to recommend to this Service that Dr. Erginsoy and his family be granted waivers of the two -year foreign residence requirement of section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, applicablVto exchange aliens.

On January 22, 1965, the Department of State. upon reviewing the circumstances, recommended. that such waivers be, granted on the grounds that Dr. Erginsoy's compliance 144 . ,Interim -Decision *1458 with this statutory requirement would be clearly detrimental to a program of official interest to the Atomic Energy Commission. ORDER: Pursuant to the favorable recommendation of the De- partment of State, it is ordered that the two-year foreign residence requirement of section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, be and the same is hereby waived in the case of Dr. Cavid Erginsoy. It 18 further ordered that the above-cited statutory requirement be and the same is hereby waived in the cases of Mrs. Ulker Say Erginsoy, All Erginsoy and Omer Erginsoy. soy. 145