Reading Room Document

Travel Restrictions on Iranian Permanent Resident Alients

The document discusses the proposal to advise the Acting Commissioner of the ISNS to revoke the legal basis for a regulation that restricts the re-entry into the United States of Iranian citizens who are permanent resident aliens. It concludes that President Carter's revocation of the Executive Order requires the revocation of the regulation. The document presents the question of whether the restriction should be reimposed, given that the national emergency declared at the outset of the hostage crisis remains in effect. The Interagency Working Group on Iran is currently considering this question, with the inclination at the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State level being against reimposition.

February 9, 1981