The Brazilian immigration authorities, in an abrupt reversal of policy, today ruled that all stateless persons who entered this country on valid Brazilian visas may remain as permanent residents despite a recent regulation which barred persons with stateless passports.
The ruling is expected to affect several hundred persons, of whom a goodly number are Jewish refugees. Recently a party of Jewish refugees with such documents were refused permission to land here and sailed on to Buenos Aires. When the vessel on which they were passengers again touched at this port on the return trip to Europe the refugees were permitted to land pending final determination of their cases in the Brazilian courts.
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