trative responsibilities is shown by 1,500 petitioners who had so recently the fact that 1,185,896 individual ex- been naturalized that their certifiaminations of aliens and their wit-cates of naturalization had not been nesses were made necessary in the received in the bureau for filing from administration of the naturalization the Clerks of Courts. law during the year. These examinations comprise 486,774 administrative examinations of petitioners and their witnesses prior to the court hearings, and 699,122 judicial examinations by the naturalization examiners in open court. This work was performed by a personnel of 300 men and women performing duty in offices located in twenty-eight Use of Immigration Visas.-The Bureau of Naturalization is the custodian of all immigration visas surrendered by immigrants under the 1924 Immigration Act at the various ports of entry throughout the United States. There were 276,815 immigration visas received and filed in the bureau during the past year. centers, from which These visas were examined to prove places they travel over the adjoining the claims of lawful entry of 25,818 territory performing the duties nec aliens who applied within the first essary to the proper enforcement of year after their arrival in the this law. United States for the privilege of beCost of the Service. The adminis-coming citizens. Among these, retration of the naturalization law is fusals resulted in 1,420 cases where no expense upon the citizen tax pay- the admissions were not as immiers of this country. The total cost grants but for visits of temporary of the administration of the naturali- character, and 3,629 whose entry was zation law has been $8,840,154.39. indicated to have been lawlessly acThe government requires the deposit complished. A disclosure of signifiin the Treasury of the United States cance is seen in the cases of 5,963 of the greater portion of the naturali- aliens who gave occupations entirely zation fees which the law prescribes different from those which were shown shall be paid by aliens. The total upon their immigration visas, when naturalization and other fees de- it is known that preferences are given posited through the naturalization to certain aliens because of the vocalaw up to and including 1925 tions claimed before the Consuls. This amounted to $9,189,277.73. The total activity also discloses aliens illegally cost of the administration of the law here who are scattered throughout was $8,840,154.39, leaving a surplus the United States away from the large of $349,128.34 over all costs. The alien colonies of the industrial cities. total income during the past year was Fraudulent naturalization will, there$743,836.54, while the expense was fore, be attempted at places where, $786,852.11. As the surplus now heretofore, only law-abiding aliens stands, the expenses are paid by have been found. There were 111,209 revenues nearly six months in ad- quota-period aliens who applied durvance of the total expenditures. ing the year to establish residence Advantages to Immigrants.-The and take out the first papers. certificates of naturalization are Certificates of Arrival. During made use of by naturalized citizens who desire to obtain preference and exemptions from the immigration visa requirements for the various members of their families remaining outside of the United States who are entitled with those issued from the Immigrathereto. These naturalized citizens tion Service elsewhere, comprise the file petitions for immigration visas, total of approximately 162,000 petiall of which are visaed and approved tions for naturalization filed during by the Bureau of Naturalization be- the year. fore the petition is granted. There were 22,617 such petitions received in the Bureau of Naturalization during the past year. Of these there were the year there were 125,000 applications for certificates of arrival for petitioning purposes received at the Ellis Island branch of the Bureau of Naturalization. These certificates, Districts. Heretofore the Naturalization Service has been administered through eleven districts and fourteen subdistricts, comprising the whole United States. During the year the judicial proceedings. The public natadministrative machinery was made uralization is hence a purely permore compact by increasing the num-functory proceeding generally, lacking ber to twenty-three districts in four of in dignity and occasioning a great which sub-headquarters were located. deal of criticism on the part of the This made all but four of the branch public. Inasmuch as the responsibil offices immediately under the direc-ity is largely administrative and a tion of the bureau in Washington. considerable portion of the judicial The Citizenship Training Work of responsibility is by reason of circumthe Bureau of Naturalization. This stances further imposed upon the adwas specifically authorized by the Act ministrative branch, those experiof May 9, 1918, and has been promo-enced in the naturalization law, in tive of the opening of the public the large centers particularly, includschools throughout the United States ing Federal and State Judges, are adfor the instruction of adult immi-vocates of the change. grants. During the year there were Photographs.-Photographs 79,964 textbooks furnished to the stu- recommended for attachment upon all dents attending these classes who naturalization papers at the time of were candidates for citizenship. their issuance for identification, prevention of their fraudulent use, and protection of the naturalized citizens. are Recommendations for amending the naturalization law. Recommendations for amendment of the law The requirement of proof of lawwere made during the year, based ful arrival.—This and the refusal of upon the nineteen years of adminis- the privileges of naturalization to trative experience, and also upon the aliens unlawfully in the United latest legislative expressions in the States, with a discretionary authority immigration laws. Among the more vested in the Bureau for the relief important of these recommendations of those who entered prior to the is the enrollment or registration of quota restrictions, are recommended. all aliens annually, with the payment Other Recommendations.-Among of a fee for the certificate of regis- the other recommendations are a fee tration and the more effective or- for certificate of arrival as evidence ganization therefrom of the public of lawful entry, increase above the school system in the teaching of adult present fees of $1 for the declaration immigrants. The natural conse-of intention and $4 for the petition quence would be the requirement to for naturalization which includes the read, speak and write our language. issuance of the certificate of naturalProposed Administrative Naturali-ization; the vesting of power in the zation. It has been recommended Naturalization Service to make findthat the naturalization of aliens ings of which the Courts could take cease as a primarily judicial func-judicial notice at the hearing, and distion and be vested with the admin-pensing with the appearance of the istrative branch of the Government, two witnesses in Court at the hearwith the right of appeal to the ap-ing; permission to file a petition for propriate United States Courts on naturalization in any authorized questions of law and after questions Court without awaiting the compleof fact have been reviewed by the tion of one year of residence in the Bureau of Naturalization in Wash- State, Territory or District of Columington in any case. This would bia, all other residence to be estabchange the traditions of the country lished by depositions; the personal from the first enactment of Congress appearance of each applicant before which made naturalization a judicial a Naturalization Examiner prior to function. Since that time the natu- the filing of his petition for naturaliralization of aliens has grown to such zation; that the children of those natproportions as to make it necessary uralized should appear in open Court for the Courts to depend almost en- upon arriving at adult age and before tirely upon the Naturalization Ex-exercising the rights of citizenship aminers representing the administra- as adults take the oath of allegiance tive branch of the Government at the land secure their own certificates. STATISTICS OF IMMIGRATION BY ARTHUR E. COOK ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR ALIENS ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924, DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1925 BY COUNTRY OR AREA OF BIRTH, AS SPECIFIED. (Quota immigrant aliens are charged to the quota; nonimmigrant and nonquota immigrant aliens are not charged to the quota. Hence the total immigrants may exceed the total statutory quota.) Does not include 1,349 aliens from quota countries, who arrived prior to the close of June 30, 1924, and were admitted after that date. Quota for colonies, dependencies, or protectorates in Other Europe, Turkey in Asia, Other Asia, Other Africa, Other Pacific, and in America, is included with the quota for the European country to which they belong. Where no quota indicated countries are exempt from limitation. |