By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor have reported to the President that pursuant to the duty imposed and the authority conferred upon them in and by subsection (2) of subdivision (c) of section 12 of the immigration act approved May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 161), they jointly have made the revision provided for in subdivision (c) of section 12 of the said act and have fixed the quota of each respective nationality in accordance therewith to be as hereinafter set forth:
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quota of each nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1933, and for each fiscal year thereafter, has been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:
NATIONAL ORIGIN IMMIGRATION QUOTAS
| Country or Area | Quota |
| Afghanistan------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Albania----------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Andorra---------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
|
Arabian peninsula (except Muscat, Aden Settlement and |
100 |
| Australia (including Tasmania, Papua, and all islands appertaining to Australia)---------------------------------------------- |
100 |
| Austria----------------------------------------------------------------- | 1,413 |
| Belgium---------------------------------------------------------------- | 1,304 |
| Bhutan----------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Bulgaria---------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Cameroons (British mandate)------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Cameroun (French mandate)-------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| China------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Czechoslovakia--------------------------------------------------------- | 2,874 |
| Danzig, Free City of----------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Denmark--------------------------------------------------------------- | 1,181 |
| Egypt------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Estonia------------------------------------------------------------------ | 116 |
| Ethiopia (Abyssinia)----------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Finland------------------------------------------------------------------ | 569 |
| France------------------------------------------------------------------ | 3,086 |
| Germany---------------------------------------------------------------- | 25,957 |
| Great Britain and Northern Ireland--------------------------------------- | 65,721 |
| Greece------------------------------------------------------------------ | 307 |
| Hungary----------------------------------------------------------------- | 869 |
| Iceland------------------------------------------------------------------ | 100 |
| India-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Iraq (Mesopotamia)----------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Irish Free State---------------------------------------------------------- | 17,853 |
| Italy--------------------------------------------------------------------- | 5,802 |
| Japan-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Latvia-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 236 |
| Liberia------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Liechtenstein------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Lithuania----------------------------------------------------------------- | 386 |
| Luxemburg-------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Monaco----------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Morocco (French and Spanish zones and Tangier)----------------------- | 100 |
| Muscat (Oman)--------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Mauru (British mandate)------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Nepal-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Netherlands-------------------------------------------------------------- | 3,153 |
| New Guinea, Territory of (including appertaining islands) (Australian mandate)---------------------------------------------------- |
100 |
| New Zealand------------------------------------------------------------ | 100 |
| Norway----------------------------------------------------------------- | 2,377 |
| Palestine (with Trans-Jordan) (British mandate)-------------------------- | 100 |
| Persia-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Poland------------------------------------------------------------------- | 6,524 |
| Portugal----------------------------------------------------------------- | 440 |
| Ruanda and Urundi (Belgian mandate)----------------------------------- | 100 |
| Rumania----------------------------------------------------------------- | 377 |
| Russia, European and Asiatic-------------------------------------------- | 2,712 |
| Samoa, Western (mandate of New Zealand)----------------------------- | 100 |
| San Marino-------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Saudi Arabia (Hejaz and Nejd and its Dependencies)-------------------- | 100 |
| Siam--------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| South Africa, Union of--------------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| South-West Africa (mandate of the Union of South Africa)----------------------------------------------------------------- |
100 |
| Spain-------------------------------------------------------------------- | 252 |
| Sweden----------------------------------------------------------------- | 3,314 |
| Switzerland-------------------------------------------------------------- | 1,707 |
| Syria and the Lebanon (French mandate)--------------------------------- | 123 |
| Tanganyika Territory (British mandate)----------------------------------- | 100 |
| Togoland (British mandate)---------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Togoland (French mandate)---------------------------------------------- | 100 |
| Turkey------------------------------------------------------------------- | 226 |
| Yap and other Pacific islands under Japanese mandate------------------- | 100 |
| Yugoslavia--------------------------------------------------------------- | 845 |
The immigration quotas assigned to the various countries and quota areas are designed solely for purposes of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 and are not to be regarded as having any significance extraneous to this object.
This proclamation shall take effect July 1, 1933, and shall supersede Proclamation No. 1953 of June 19, 1931.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 16 day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
By the President:
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Acting Secretary of State.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation 2048—Immigration Quotas Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/349413