The Palestine Government today announced that it has assigned 13,750 immigration certificates for the admission of 13,500 Jews and 250 non-Jews to Palestine during the three-month period from April 1 to June 31, 1943.
The announcement specifies that of the 13,500 immigration visas for Jews, 10,625 will be allocated to children and 2,875 will be issued to adults accompanied by wives and minor children.
A statement accompanying the announcement declares that the above number of certificates is available – subject to the absorptive capacity – under the White Paper policy which provides for the admission into Palestine of 75,000 Jews from 1939 until the middle of 1944. Of this total, the statement says, the immigration authorities have already granted 41,000 certificates during the period from April 1, 1939 until March 31 of the current year. Actual arrivals during the period included 21, 242 Jews who entered the country legally and 16,100 who came illegally for whom visas were deducted from the immigration quota. There are still 3,825 illegal entrants for whom visas will be deducted from the total, thus leaving a balance of 33,833 immigration visas for Jews as of April 1 of this year.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine, it was learned here today, has approached the Palestine Government to allot all available immigration certificates for immediate distribution in countries from where Jews can still be rescued.
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