Occupational distribution of job assurances for principal refugees-Records received from consulates as of Apr. 22, 1955, representing the first 2,993 visas issued NOTE.-This schedule has been prepared to reflect the predominating skills and trades. Included under 11 Occupational distribution of job assurances for principal refugees—Records received from consulates as of Apr. 22, 1955, representing the first 2,993 visas issued Occupational distribution of job assurances for principal refugees-Records received from consulates as of Apr. 22, 1955, representing the first 2,993 visas issued (excludes visas not requiring job orders)-Continued Senator CLEMENTS. How many of those 25,000 have actually come to the shores of the United States? Mr. MCLEOD. That figure is furnished by the Immigration Service and their cumulative total through April 1 is 546 in the refugee category. Senator CLEMENTS. 546 refugees? I gave you the wrong number. 16,713 of the 25,000 have entered by April 1. Senator CLEMENTS. Break them down between refugees and pref erence cases. Mr. MCLEOD. We have to add them up. There are 14 categories. here. I think it comes out to 1,044 in the refugee category. PERCENTAGE OF ASSURANCE REJECTIONS Senator ELLENDER. Mr. McLeod, I wonder if you can give us the percentage of those aliens whose assurances you have accepted or rejected? Mr. MCLEOD. The worldwide percentage is running about 1 in 6. Mr. MCLEOD. It is 1 in 6 now, actual rejections. Mr. MCLEOD. Are rejected, but I want to explain rejected because we have the man who is found eligible and is refused. Then they have a great number of cases where the CD or usually TB, is not inactive or cured, because the law specifies you cannot have active communicable disease. These are what we call the suspense cases. We carry them in the refused category because we can't issue visas. Under this procedure every 6 months we permit them to get new X-rays to see if they can qualify under the life of the act. So that turndown is not a final turndown. I mean, the ultimate statistics may show there are not as many as 1 in 6 that are rejected. Senator ELLENDER. Senator Clements asked you a question a while ago as to those who have actually come to the United States. I wonder if you could give us that in each category. That is the orphan, the preference ones, and the refugee cases. Mr. MCLEOD. I could submit that for the record, this compilation given us by the Immigration Service. They have it broken down in each of the 14 categories. (The information referred to appears on p. 106.) Senator ELLENDER. Of Deople under this program that have actually entered the United States in the three categories? Mr. MCLEOD. Of the 14 categories which includes the 3. Here is the chart, sir. Senator ELLENDER. I am particularly anxious to have for the record the three categories, percentagewise, that have actually landed in this country and that have come under the act administered by you. I think that was the purport of Senator Clement's question. Senator CLEMENTS. He said it is 9,100 preference cases for which they have issued visas and 908 orphans cases, I believe. What I think the committee would want to know is how many of those have landed in this country in each category. Mr. MCLEOD. I will be glad to furnish you the figure, but I want it in the record that we have no responsibility beyond issuing the visa. The visa is good for 4 months. It can be renewed simply by asking the consul to renew it. So that this decision on the part of the immigrant as to when he finds it convenient to uproot himself from one continent and move to another is outside our discretion. Senator CLEMENTS. Of course, that question I asked you, I do not think leads to that in the record, but if you want to put that in the record, there is no reason for you not to. You might put in the record any views that you might have on why the 4,000 refugees for whom visas have been issued, that they have not come into this country. If you have any views on where the slowness is and where it can be eliminated, it would be very fine for this record. Senator ELLENDER. We have been talking about these three categories, that is the orphans, those preference cases, and the refugees in general. If you can put that in the record, I would appreciate it. (The information referred to appears on p. 101.) REFUSAL OF READMISSION AGREEMENTS Now, the next question I would like to ask you-I have already touched on it is this: To what extent have any of the countries refused to give you these assurances of return? Are there any that have refused it, or have they all complied with your request? Mr. MCLEOD. I think all, with some very minor principalities, I would say. Portugal is the only NATO country that has not given it. Portugal, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq are still pending. Senator ELLENDER. To what extent has the refusal or the delay of these assurances by those countries delayed your program; if at all? Mr. MCLEOD. I think it is questionable that we could have operated any faster had we had assurances any sooner. We did not plan to begin operations in Germany and Austria until the beginning of the current fiscal year and they gave us the assurance in April. So that we had enough jump in there in order to get going. That was the only one really that ever worried us a great deal because that is where the large block was located. UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE JOB ASSURANCES Senator ELLENDER. Have you any difficulty in obtaining job assurances from the United States Employment Service here? It is a little difficult, is it not, because of the fact that we have quite a few unemployed now? Mr. MCLEOD. No. Senator ELLENDER. It is up around 3%1⁄2 million, I think. Mr. MCLEOD. I am no expert in this matter, but I am told even in centers of large unemployment some of that unemployment is traceable to the fact that we don't have the high skill which if we could find would permit the employment of low skill. So that even in the areas of high employment there is still demand for skill if it can be obtained in Europe. The Labor Department or the United States Employment Service has constantly assured us that there was a demand for not only high skill, but for very low skills, such as dishwashers, hospital attendants, and jobs of that kind, where there is a constant turnover, even again in areas of high employment. Senator KILGORE. Is there not a heavy demand for really highly skilled tailors in this country? Mr. MCLEOD. I understand there is. Senator KILGORE. And there is a demand for highly skilled hand forgers in this country. There are a number of those high skills in Europe for which there is a demand for a great number of people if they are so skilled. Mr. MCLEOD. Yes, sir; I think that is right. Senator SALTONSTALL. Would the Senator from Louisiana yield for one question? ENTRIES TO UNITED STATES UNDER PUBLIC LAW 203 Senator ELLENDER. I have only one question and then I am through. In answering the question that I asked you a moment ago about the number in these three different categories we have been talking about, I wonder if you would be good enough to break it down as to how many came in July 1, 1954, January 1, 1955, and April 15, 1955? Mr. MCLEOD. Yes. (The information referred to follows:) Number of persons entering United States under Public Law 203, by category Senator SALTONSTALL. I would like to ask Mr. McLeod one question, because it is an overall question, without going into detail. |