A LONG WAIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 1

A LONG WAIT

N.Z. BORN ACTOR BARRED FROM U.S.A. QUOTA RESTRICTIONS According to an English paper, Mr. Shayle Gardner, New Zealand-born British film and stage actor, will not be able to take up permanent residence in the United States for IS years. The reason given is that the New Zealand quota for entry is only 100 a year, and it will take IS years to work through it! Mr. Gardner went to Hollywood from England a little j

ITIU cl. HUIC over a year ago on a visitor’s visa, permitting him to work iu the United States for s i x months. He was so successful that he asked for a six months' extension, after which he had | to leave. His intention nn

His intention on w,,a / ,c uai unc ' returning to England was to obtain a “quota number,” which would enable him to stay in the United States indefinitely. But, according to an English newspaper, when it was found that he was not English-born, he was told that the New Zealand “quota” for entry into the States was only 100 a year and that it would be 18 years before the waiting list would be exhausted. “It is true that the New Zealand quota is only 100 a year,” said Mr. Walter Boyle, United States Consul j at Auckland, when the question was | referred to him. “But as far as this j country is concerned, the waiting time 1 ranges from six months to IS months. llt has never been longer.” For the benefit of New Zealanders i residing overseas, however, and wishing to enter the States, 10 per cent, of the New Zealand quota was set aside.

“This naturally entails a longer wait than in New Zealand,” said Mr. Boyle. “The waiting time, however, is shortened by the fact that a. number of people change their minds when the opportunity occurs to enter the United States.”

Referring to the New Zealand quota, Mr. Boyle said it kept well filled up, and about 100 New Zealanders left to take up life in the U.S.A. each year. It is interesting to note that the Australian quota is the same as that of New Zealand —100 a year. It is stated that in Turkey, where the American immigration quo-ta is also 100, there is a waiting list of 10,000, which would mean that one might have to wait 100 years to get a place. The quota system is based upon the proportionate national descent of the people of the U.S.A. Before this system was introduced two per cent, of each nationality in the United States, according to the census of IS9O, was j allowed in each year.