Only 30,000 visas have been granted prospective immigrants under President Eisenhower’s Refugee Relief Act of 1953, which envisaged the admission of 209,000 refugees to the United States in over three years.
This was made known here yesterday by Harry B. Lyford, special assistant to the Deputy Administrator of the Act, addressing the sixth annual meeting of the New York Association for New Americans. Mr. Lyford also reported that 6,600 of these visas were granted in the last three months.
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