In a memorandum submitted today to the conference of non-governmental organizations interested in migration affairs, the Agudas Israel World Organization called for more sympathetic consideration of the problem of reunion of families and, particularly, when persons concerned are refugees without homes and hope of resettlement.
The migration conference of the organizations accredited to the United Nations will open in Geneva next week. The Jewish group suggested that “the whole problem of reunion of families is one which requires urgent consideration and might well be the subject of United Nations action.”
The memorandum noted that in many countries, including the United Kingdom, laws and regulations are such that; it does not follow that a husband can join his wife although the latter is a national of the country concerned. In the United Kingdom, “which has a most laudable record in relation to refugees, “the memorandum noted, “an alien husband can only join his wife if she is of British birth and British parentage.”
The memorandum contrasts these requirements with the Argentine regulations adopted in 1932 which permit immigration of “parents, grandparents, spouses, children, brothers and sister, grandchildren and blood nephews and nieces of aliens settled in the Republic.”
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