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Displaced Persons Act of 1948; Long title: An act to authorize for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes: Enacted by: the 80th United States Congress: Effective: June 25, 1948: Citations; Public law: 80-774: Statutes at Large: 62 Stat ...
[7]: 589 The Displaced Persons Act of 1948, the first refugee legislation enacted by U.S. Congress, provided for the admission of an additional 400,000 displaced Europeans. Previous to this Act, 250,000 displaced Europeans had already been admitted to the U.S. [8] After the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, refugee admission laws evolved to accept ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Events in the year 1948 in India. ... Act; Resettlement Of Displaced Persons (Land Acquisition) Act; Births
This is a category of articles concerning acts of Parliament (laws enacted by the Parliament of India in 1948). For more general discussion of Indian legal topics, see Category:Law of India and its other subcategories.
(ii) any Act of a Legislature subject to the condition that such Act is reproduced or published together with any commentary thereon or any other original matter; (iii) the report of any committee, commission, council, board or other like body appointed by the government if such report has been laid on the Table of the Legislature, unless the ...
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However, a displaced person otherwise legally entitled to refugee status may never apply for asylum, or may not be allowed to apply in the country they fled to and thus may not have official asylum seeker status. Once a displaced person is granted refugee status they enjoy certain rights as agreed in the 1951 Refugee convention. Not all ...
After World War II, there were countless displaced people that were in need of assistance.During the Holocaust the United States accepted around 250,000 refugees; however, comparatively, other countries such as Britain, Netherlands and France accepted more refugees. [1]