Polish Jews who married women who are American citizens will not get American visas if their wives left for the United States after July 11, 1930 leaving their husbands to follow them later. This was announced today at the American consulate after a consultation with the Polish government.
Of late there has been a great increase in the number of Polish Jews marrying American girls, the newly-married wives leaving for America first without waiting until their husbands receive the Polish documents necessary in order to obtain an American visa. Suspecting fictitious marriages the consulate this week refused 60 applications of husbands who are to follow their American wives to the United States.
The consulate also made arrangements with the Polish government that henceforth every Jewish marriage involving American girls must be sanctioned by a rabbi and legalized by the cults department which stamps the passport of the married woman thus enabling the American consulate to check up at any time on real and fictitious marriages with American citizens.
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