The United Hias Service, worldwide Jewish migration agency today announced the adoption of a 1962 program of migration, resettlement and related services to 44,500 persons; The announcement was made by Murray C. Gurfein, president.
In this program, the agency anticipates expenditures of approximately $2,785,000 and an estimated emigration movement of 6,730, almost 50 percent of whom are expected to find a haven in the United States. Most of the other migrants and refugees will be resettled in Latin America, Canada and Australia, it was made known.
“The catastrophes and turmoil that drove Jews to migrate in growing numbers in 1961 show no signs of abating in 1962, ” Mr; Gurfein declared in announcing the program; Detailed reports on last year’s activities of United Hias Service will be made at the agency’s 78th annual meeting to be hold in New York on March 11.
“We entered the new year with a larger number of persons registered with us for migration assistance than we had at the beginning of 1961, ” Mr. Gurfein emphasized, “despite the fact that last year’s program of assisted movements soared 80 percent above original estimates. The storm warnings and distress signals that occupied our attention in 1961 were very much in evidence as we planned for 1962, ” he continued, “and, in fact, there were ominous rumblings from new trouble-spots”
In addition to dramatic rescue services, the United Has plans call for vital assistance to 10,000 relatives and sponsors of prospective immigrants with skilled pre-migration aid. They also provide preliminary processing and migration counseling, including intervention with government officials, for 17,000 persons who will be part of the agency’s registered caseload in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean area.
The plans also provide 2,100 persons with necessary help to achieve an adjustment of their status in the United States; give naturalization assistance in the U.S to 5,000 persons; and provide resettlement assistance in Latin America to 650 migrants who arrived in prior years.
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