Designed to curb the movements of enemy aliens with a minimum of restriction on the activity of other non-citizens instructions covering enforcement of the recently proclaimed United States travel regulations were announced by the Justice Department today. The following four points were emphasized in the new regulations:
1. Aliens must leave the country at a port of departure designated by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization.
2. Aliens, except those in exempt classes, must obtain a permit from the State Department. All persons holding border-crossing identification cards are exempt from this requirement.
3. Application for a departure Permit must be submitted to the State Department, although information concerning classification of aliens may be obtained from any of the 500 immigration and naturalization service offices in the country.
4. The statute under which the President’s proclamation and departure regulations were issued makes it a criminal offense for an alien to attempt to depart from the United States at a place other than the designated port of departure, or to depart from the country in willful violation of the regulations.
The instructions make a distinction between classes of persons who are permitted to depart once they have passed the examination of immigration officials at border and sea ports, and other groups of persons who must secure the permission of the Department of State before they are allowed to proceed.
Among the classes of aliens not required to obtain permits to depart are the following: Aliens in possession of border-crossing identification cards who are departing across the border between the United States and Canada; Mexican citizens lawfully domiciled in Mexico or in the United States who are departing across the border between the United States and Mexico; aliens in possession of valid re-entry permits issued with the concurrence of the Secretary of State as to destination; immigrant aliens lawfully admitted into the United States who pass in direct transit, without stop-over, through foreign contiguous territory from one part of the United States to another, by means of a transportation line which runs through the territory or waters of both countries.
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