Procedures for the issuance of visas and transportation of displaced persons and refugees emigrating from camps and communities in Germany to the U.S. have been established by the immigration mission, which came here to carry out President Truman’s Christmas directive facilitating the entrance of refugees under existing immigration laws, it was learned here today.
The group, headed by Ugo Carusi, U.S. Commissioner for Immigration and Naturalization, and Howard K. Travers, head of the State Department’s visa division, announced that assembly centers would be established at Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, and an embarkation center will be set up at Bremen.
Consulates will be opened at Munich and Stuttgart this month, and at Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg during March. Since Hamburg is in the British zone, the consulate there will handle only “non-quota” and “preference quota” cases.
Previous to the announcement of emigration procedures, the immigration committee held three meetings with representatives of the military government, UNRRA, Hias, and other voluntary organizations.
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