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The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (80th Cong., 2d Sess. Ch 647, PL 774) authorized, for a limited period of time, the admission into the United States of 200,000 certain European displaced persons (DPs) for permanent residence.
Extended the War Brides Act to Japan and Korea. 1948 Displaced Persons Act: Granted permanent residence to displaced persons from Europe. Pub. L. 80–774: 1950 Lodge–Philbin Act: 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) Set a quota for aliens with skills needed in the US.
[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 ...
It allowed 200,000 displaced persons to enter the country within the next two years. However, they exceeded the quota by extending the act for another two years, which doubled the admission of refugees into the United States to 415,000. From 1949 to 1952, about half the 900,000 immigrants that entered the United States were displaced persons. [24]
Early action came in the form of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, and the Refugee-Escapee Act of 1957. [2] The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which was later amended in 1965 to include policy for refugees on a case-by-case basis, was the first Act that consolidated U.S. immigration policy into one ...
The American Commission for the Relief of Polish Immigrants is engaged in obtaining home and job assurances in the United States for displaced persons in Europe, the Polish soldiers in England, and Polish refugees and displaced persons eligible under the Displaced Persons Act.
The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 was the United States' second refugee admissions and resettlement law, following the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which expired at the end of 1952. [1] Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians , 17,000 Greeks , 17,000 Dutch , and 45,000 immigrants from ...
In 1948, the United States government passed the Displaced Persons Act (DPA), which allowed the government to ignore its regular quotas when admitting refugees from the war. [1] However, the act incorporated language from the constitution of the International Refugee Organization that excluded the following from being considered "displaced ...