United Hias Service provided rescue, resettlement and related services last year to approximately 53,500 Jewish men, women and children, Carlos I. Israels, president, disclosed in the agency’s annual report for 1966, made public today. More than 8,800 were assisted to resettle in the United States and other Western countries, he said.
During the past year, the active caseload of persons registered to emigrate reached 23,608; pre-migration services in the United States and Latin America were rendered to 16,319 relatives and sponsors of prospective migrants; 3,030 were aided in the United States with such post-migration services as naturalization, adjustment of status, and prevention of deportation and jeopardy; 1,549 persons were located throughout the world; and, in Latin America. 158 migrants who arrived in prior years received agency assistance.
The cost of the agency’s worldwide operations for the year, Mr. Israels stated, amounted to $2,250,334 and resulted in a net cumulative deficit of $131,267.
Gaynor I. Jacobson, UHS executive director, stressed in another section of the report, “the importance of modifying the restrictive labor certification provisions in the new liberalized immigration law.” Current provisions, he said, restrict the entry of many would-be immigrants. “Although there has been administrative easing of some restrictions, there is room for change in this part of the law to permit more immigrants to enter this country,” Mr. Jacobson stated.
In addition, he pointed out the need for “new seed” immigrants who do not have close relatives here and whose skills are not in short supply. “These people, if given the chance, would make significant contributions to social, economic and cultural life in the United States,” Mr. Jacobson said.
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