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 PROCLAMATIONS

Proclamation 3569 IMMIGRATION QUOTA By the President of the United States of America

January 7, 1964

A Proclamation

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 under the provisions of section 202(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, the annual quota of any newly established quota area shall be not less than the sum total of quotas in effect or number of visas authorized for the area immediately preceding the change of administrative arrangements, change of boundaries, or other political change requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and WHEREAS on September 16, 1963 the Federation of Malaya and the former British Colonies of North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak and the State of Singapore united to form Malaysia; and 1221


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