Less than one per cent of refugees’ applications for residence certificates have been refused by the Inter-ministerial Commission established in France, it was revealed here today.
The legal status of refugees in France is protected by the Geneva convention defining refugees as those who on July 4, 1936, were living outside of Germany and were no longer under German protection. These are eligible to a certificate entitling them to one year’s residence in another country, but without the right to work. The convention has to date been ratified by France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and England.
At the present time France is harboring 8,000 refugees, of whom 2,000 are receiving assistance; England has 3,500 and Belgium 130, who until November 5, 1936, had the right to work; Holland numbers 700, of whom 220 were being assisted.
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