Sixty six cases (male 36, female 30) were consulted to psychiatrist among 66, 632 cases of *migratory VISA applicants for their emigration during 4 years, from Jan. In 1976 at St. Marys Hospital. The authors reviewed the 66 cases in the view of clinical psychiatry and got results as followings:
1) Consulted cases was 0.1% of the all aplicants (66, 523), which was about 43% of total emigrants in our country in the same period.
2) Age distribution: predominantly (9001o) below thirty years old, who almost dependent life to their parents or relatives.
3) Diagnostic classification: 31 cases (47%) of mental retardation, 26 cases (40%) of cerebral palsy, 3 cases of schizophrenia, 1 case of psychotic depressive reaction, 1 case of depressive neurosis, and 4 cases of others. These feature suggests the purpose of consultation was not for help any psychological troubles rather but for their official procedure to emigrate.
4) The relationship between EEG findings and retarded intelligence:
Twenty five cases of mental retardation and 27 cerebral palsy associated with mental Retardation were checked EEG, which findings revealed trend that the more mentally retarded the worse EEG findings.
5) Psychiatric treatments and disposition:
Two cases of schizophrenia, one of depressive neurosis and one psychotic depression were able to emigrate after adequate psychiatric treatments and revaluation but one case of chronic schizophrenia abandoned to.
All cases of mental retardation and cerebral palsy emigrated after receiving the permission to enter the special institute for mental retardation and or physical handicap of immigrant countries.
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