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FINDINGS OF FACT
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found.
At the time the petition was filed, petitioners, Paul Mifsud
(Mr. Mifsud) and Maria G. Mifsud (Ms. Mifsud), resided in Hudson,
Florida.
Ms. Mifsud emigrated from Malta to the United States around
1952 or 1953, when she was 13 years old. Mr. Mifsud, who was one
of ten children, and his father, also named Paul Mifsud, em-
igrated from Malta to the United States in 1951, when Mr. Mifsud
was around 14 years old and his father was around 47 years old.
One of Mr. Mifsud's brothers and one of his sisters had pre-
viously emigrated to the United States in 1947 and 1950, re-
spectively. Mr. Mifsud's mother and two of his brothers em-
igrated to the United States in 1953, and his other brothers came
to the United States thereafter. At the time of the trial in
this case, Mr. Mifsud's mother, who was still living in the
United States, was 94 years old and very ill. At that time, she
was living on funds that Mr. Mifsud and certain of his siblings
sent to her for her care and on Social Security payments which
she was receiving and which were attributable to the earnings of
her husband from his employment in the United States.
During World War II, Malta was devastated by German air
strikes. Estimates of Maltese national income in the postwar
period ranged from $28.2 million to $44.3 million. In 1951, when
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