Less Than One-fourth of Immigration Quotas Remains to Be Filled

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

With three months left of the quota year, most of the chief sources of American immigration have less than a quarter of their quotas remaining to be filled before July 1st, according to the Department of State.

The monthly report of the status of the Immigration Quotas as shown by visas issued by consular officers up to April 1st has just been made public. It shows that Poland has already used all but 620 of its quota of 5,982; Russia has left 244 of its quota of 2,248; Roumania, 143 of its quota of 603; Palestine 42 of the quota of 100; Lithuania 51 of the quota of 344; 22 still remain of Latvia’s quota of 142: Hungary still has 81 of its quota of 473; 451 of Czecho-Slovakia’s quota of 3,073 remain; Austria still has 104 of its quota of 735. The Arabian Peninsula is one of the eighteen countries which have not sent any immigrants to the United States.

Germany has already used all but 7,629 of the quota of 51,227 assigned to them, while Great Britain and northern Ireland have 4,920 left of their quota of 34,007.

The Irish Free State has 10,383 left of its quota of 28,567, while Italy has almost exactly one-quarter of its quota to be filled during the remaining quarter of the year.

There still remain eighteen countries which have sent no immigrants into the United States in the current quota year. The total of these countries’ quotas numbers 1800. All are countries that are allowed 100 immigrants under the provision that this minimum shall be granted to all countries. The list is as follows: Afghanistan, Andorra (republican state under the suzerainty of France), Arabian Peninsula, Bhutan (independent state between India and Tibet). British Cameroon, French Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru (island in South Pacific under British Mandate), New Guinea, Ruanda and Urondi (former German East Africa, now Belgian), Samoa, Siam, Tanganyanka, British Togoland, French Togoland, Yap.