Speech #900023575

Rumania. Bul-. garia. and Spain. - Huge backlogs also plagued these southern European nations. so that they drew heavily from the pool of unused quota numbers31.960 numbers. According to the State Department. figures. of the 25.115 quota immigrants from Asia and the Pacific. 3.217 were drawn from quotas under the old law. and 21.844 were from the pool of unused quota numbers. The largest groups of AsiaPacific quota immigrants came from four nations and the South Pacific. In the following order: First. Immigrants from China totaled 12.821. with 100 quota numbers and 12.721 from the pool--about half of the AsiaPacific total. Second. Immigrants from the Philippines totaled 3.186. with 100 quota numbers and 3.086 from the pool--about 13 percent of the AsiaPacific total. Third. Immigrants from India totaled 2.071. with 100 quota numbers and 1.971 from the poolabout 8 percent of the AsiaPacific total. Fourth. Immigrants from Japan totaled 786. with 185 quota numbers and 601 from the poolabout 3 percent of the AsiaPacific total. Fifth. Immigrants from the South Pacific totaled 685. with 475 quota numbers and 210 from the poolabout 2.7 percent of the AsiaPacific total. According to State Department figures. the allowable quota for Europe was 149.472. but only 69.677 of these numbers were used. The remaining 79.795 was allocated to the pool. from which mainly southern Europeans drew 33.055. Total immigration from Europe was 102.732 for fiscal 1966. The quota for Africa was 4.274. of which only 1.156 was used. 3.118 went into the pool. from which was drawn African immigration totaled 1.868. Worldwide. of a total of 158.411 annual allowable quota under the law. 129.797 Immigrants were admitted in fiscal year 1966. 74.186 visas were issued to authorized areas. and 84.225 unused numbers were placed in a pool--out of which 55.611 quota visas were issued to oversubscribed areas. Mr" President. I ask unantmous. consent that table X of the Visa Office report. showing the use of immigrant visa numbers by country or area of birth or quota chargeability for fiscal year 1966. be printed at this point in the RECORD.