Proclamation 3503—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 Immigration and Nationality 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 on December 9, 1961, the former British Trust Territory of Tanganyika became independent upon the termination of United Nations Trusteeship; and

Whereas on January 1, 1962, the former New Zealand Trust Territory of Western Samoa became the Independent State of Western Samoa upon the termination of United Nations Trusteeship; and

Whereas on July 1, 1962, upon the termination of United Nations Trusteeship, the former Belgian Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi became the independent states of the Republic of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Burundi; and

Whereas on August 6, 1962, the former British Colony of Jamaica was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom; and

Whereas on August 31, 1962, the former British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom; and

Whereas the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General have jointly determined and reported to me the immigration quotas hereinafter set forth,

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, 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 quotas of the quota areas hereinafter designated have been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:

Quota Area                                                    Quota

Tanganyika ----------------------------------------------------------------- 100

Western Samoa ------------------------------------------------------------ 100

Rwanda ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 100

Burundi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 100

Jamaica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 100

Trinidad and Tobago---------------------------------------------------- 100

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.

Proclamation No. 3298 of June 3, 1959, as amended, entitled "Immigration Quotas," is further amended by the abolishment of the immigration quotas established for "Tanganyika-(trust territory, United Kingdom)", "Samoa, Western (trust territory, New Zealand)", "Ruanda-Urundi (trust territory, Belgium)" and by the addition of the immigration quotas established by this proclamation.

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 twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State