The government of Palestine today advanced to the Jewish Agency for Palestine 1,350 laborers’ certificates against an undetermined immigration schedule for the next two months.
“Under the British system of restricting immigration into Palestine according to the absorptive capacity of the country,” the Jewish Agency submits a proposed schedule of Jewish immigration, which is either accepted by the government or reduced.
Recent immigration schedules submitted by the Jewish Agency have been drastically reduced by the Palestine authorities. Last October when the Agency asked for 24,000 certificates for the period up March, the government granted only 5,500 certificates, 2,500 of which had already been used.
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