Under the Act, conditional entrants were granted a temporary immigration status which could be adjusted to permanent resident status after two years. They also included people who were uprooted by catastrophic natural calamities as defined by the president. These were aliens in noncommunist countries who had fled a communist country or the Middle East and were unwilling to return due to persecution or fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion. The 1965 Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) eliminated the quota system and established a preference category for conditional entrants. This process would be repeated on several occasions during the following decades. and for Congress to later pass special legislation allowing the parolees to become lawful permanent residents. This program set the precedent for using the attorney general’s parole authority to admit refugees to the U.S. Two years later, on July 25, 1958, Congress passed a law allowing Hungarian parolees to become lawful permanent residents of the United States. INS officers examined these applicants in Austria and again when they arrived in the U.S., where they were temporarily held at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. under the attorney general’s parole authority (section 212 of the INA). admitted 6,130 Hungarian refugees under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953.Īdditionally, over 30,000 Hungarians entered the U.S. As a result, 36 nations, including the U.S., offered to help resettle the displaced Hungarians. Following the rapid and violent 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet Union, thousands of Hungarians fled their homeland and sought refuge in Austria, which soon became overwhelmed by the influx of refugees.
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