Proclamation 3298—Immigration Quotas

Whereas under the provisions of section 202 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and

Whereas under the provisions of section 201 (b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota, area established pursuant to the provisions of section 202 (a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and

Whereas under the provisions of section 202(e) of the said Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any political changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and

Whereas the State of Guinea was on November 1, 1958, recognized de jure by the United States as an independent country; and

Whereas it has been determined that the existing immigration quotas for Italy and Yugoslavia should be revised upward by reason of the abolishment of the quota established for the Free Territory of Trieste, such territory having ceased to constitute a quota area within the meaning of section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and

Whereas several changes have occurred in quota areas since the issuance of Proclamation No. 2980 of June 30, 1952, warranting a republication of all established quotas and quota areas:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quota o feach quota area herein-after designated has been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:

Quota Area------------------------------------------------------Quota

Afghanistan-------------------------------------------------------100

Albania-----------------------------------------------------------100

Andorra-----------------------------------------------------------100

Arabian Peninsula-------------------------------------------------100

Asia-Pacific------------------------------------------------------100

Australia---------------------------------------------------------100

Austria---------------------------------------------------------1,405

Belgium---------------------------------------------------------1,297

Bhutan------------------------------------------------------------100

Bulgaria----------------------------------------------------------100

Burma-------------------------------------------------------------100

Cambodia----------------------------------------------------------100

Cameroons (trust territory, United Kingdom)-----------------------100

Cameroun (trust territory, France)--------------------------------100

Ceylon------------------------------------------------------------100

China-------------------------------------------------------------100

Chinese Persons---------------------------------------------------105

Czechoslovakia--------------------------------------------------2,859

Danzig, Free City of----------------------------------------------100

Denmark---------------------------------------------------------1,175

Estonia-----------------------------------------------------------115

Ethiopia----------------------------------------------------------100

Finland-----------------------------------------------------------566

France----------------------------------------------------------3,069

Germany--------------------------------------------------------25,814

Ghana-------------------------------------------------------------100

Great Britain and Northern Ireland-----------------------------65,361

Greece------------------------------------------------------------308

Guinea------------------------------------------------------------100

Hungary-----------------------------------------------------------865

Iceland-----------------------------------------------------------100

India-------------------------------------------------------------100

Indonesia---------------------------------------------------------100

Iran (Persia)-----------------------------------------------------100

Iraq--------------------------------------------------------------100

Ireland (Eire)-------------------------------------------------17,756

Israel------------------------------------------------------------100

Italy-----------------------------------------------------------5,666

Japan-------------------------------------------------------------185

Jordan------------------------------------------------------------100

Korea-------------------------------------------------------------100

Laos--------------------------------------------------------------100

Latvia------------------------------------------------------------235

Lebanon-----------------------------------------------------------100

Liberia-----------------------------------------------------------100

Libya-------------------------------------------------------------100

Liechtenstein-----------------------------------------------------100

Lithuania---------------------------------------------------------384

Luxemburg---------------------------------------------------------100

Malaya (Federation of)--------------------------------------------100

Monaco------------------------------------------------------------100

Morocco-----------------------------------------------------------100

Muscat (Oman)-----------------------------------------------------100

Nauru (trust territory, Australia)--------------------------------100

Nepal-------------------------------------------------------------100

Netherlands-----------------------------------------------------3,136

New Guinea (trust territory, Australia)---------------------------100

New Zealand-------------------------------------------------------100

Norway----------------------------------------------------------2,364

Pacific Islands (trust territory, United States administered)-----100

Pakistan----------------------------------------------------------100

Palestine (Arab Palestine)----------------------------------------100

Philippines-------------------------------------------------------100

Poland----------------------------------------------------------6,488

Portugal----------------------------------------------------------438

Ruanda-Urundi (trust territory, Belgium)--------------------------100

Rumania-----------------------------------------------------------289

Samoa, Western (trust territory, New Zealand)---------------------100

San Marino--------------------------------------------------------100

Saudi Arabia------------------------------------------------------100

Somaliland (trust territory, Italy)-------------------------------100

South-West Africa (mandate)---------------------------------------100

Spain-------------------------------------------------------------250

Sudan-------------------------------------------------------------100

Sweden----------------------------------------------------------3,295

Switzerland-----------------------------------------------------1,698

Tanganyika (trust territory, United Kingdom)----------------------100

Thailand (Siam)---------------------------------------------------100

Togo (trust territory, France)------------------------------------100

Tunisia-----------------------------------------------------------100

Turkey------------------------------------------------------------225

Union of South Africa---------------------------------------------100

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-----------------------------2,697

United Arab Republic----------------------------------------------100

Vietnam-----------------------------------------------------------100

Yemen-------------------------------------------------------------100

Yugoslavia--------------------------------------------------------942

The establishment of an immigration quota for any quota area is solely for the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and is not to be considered as having any significance extraneous to such purpose.

The following proclamations regarding immigration quotas are hereby revoked: Proclamation No. 2980 of June 30, 1952; Proclamation No. 3147 of July 9, 1956; Proclamation No. 3158 of September 20, 1956; Proclamation No. 3188A of June 26, 1957; Proclamation No. 3206 of October 10, 1957; and Proclamation No. 3248 of June 20, 1958.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this third day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.