(an unusual move for a non

voting island delegate) to se cure an amendment to a Bill calling for visa-free entry to Guam for tourists.

The Bill passed but mainland immigration officials essentially refused to issue the regulations that would make the Won Pat amendment effective.

Blaz then set to work on the immigration service and simul taneously inserted a clause in the Omnibus Territories Act requiring the Immigration De partment to issue regulations 90 days after the Act became law.

The new rules are expected to ease tourist flow for Guam with the possible exception of visitors from the Phillipines.

Most trans-Pacific passengers know that admission to Guam does not secure easy entry to the rest of the US.

Passengers from Guam routinely stop at Hawaii where they must clear immigration again just as if they had come from a foreign port.

This bureaucratic sensitivity about illegal aliens reaching the

mainland via Guam reflects Congressional feelings which were shown in the passage late in the session of an omnibus immigration reform Act which has two provisions likely to have an impact on Guam and the Marianas.

It will soon be an offence to hire illegal aliens though, secondly, long term illegal aliens who can prove they were illegally in the States since January 1, 1982 may secure legal status.

A by-product of all this activ

ity is that all new young male citizens in the Marianas must register for military service.

Nobody is drafted these days, but all males between the ages of 18 and 26 must register.

This rule already applies in Guam but not in American Samoa though US nationals living in Samoa must register if they move to Hawaii or the mainland. The provision has never applied to FSM, the Marshalls or Palau.

Generally, the islands did well out of these developments.

People in the Marianas wanted full US citizenship; they got it.

People in FSM and the Mar shalls now have unlimited right to migrate to the mainland while their governments main tain tight control of immigration to their islands including migration from the States.

Guam won a couple of rounds in its continuing battle with mainland immigration authorities.

The only low note appears to be the loss of immigration con trol by the Marianas, though this is still under discussion.

from David S. North.

Congressman Blaz worked on immigration officials.