Statistics in regard to Alien Passengers who entered and left the United Kingdom in 1926, with comparative figures for 1925. EXPLANATORY NOTES. TABLE I. This table gives the bulk movement inwards and outwards of alien passengers during 1926. The traffic both inwards and outwards shows a slight decrease as compared with the figures for 1925. The admission of aliens to the United Kingdom is at present regulated by the Aliens Order, 1920, made under the provisions of the Aliens Restriction Acts, 1914 and 1919. The Aliens Order provides that alien passengers coming from outside the United Kingdom shall not land except with the leave of an Immigration Officer nor elsewhere than at an approved port, but an alien passenger arriving at a port other than an approved port may in special circumstances be permitted to land by the Secretary of State. The following are scheduled as approved ports : Lympne, Croydon and Cricklewood. It will be seen that of the total of 367,424 alien passengers who entered the United Kingdom only a very few hundreds arrived elsewhere than at approved ports. The number of alien passengers recorded as having left the United Kingdom exceeded the number recorded as having entered by 2,761. The figures of arrival and departure do not, of course, mean that all the aliens who arrived or departed were different individuals. Many aliens, such as business visitors and persons domiciled in the United Kingdom, enter and leave the country at frequent intervals during a year, and each arrival or departure appears in the statistics. For the meaning of transmigrants," who are not included in this and the three following tables, see Note to Table V. 66 This table gives, under certain categories, the nationalities of the 367,424 alien passengers coming from outside the United Kingdom who were given leave to land during the year. Article 1 of the Aliens Order, 1920, provides as follows: (1) An alien coming from outside the United Kingdom shall not land in the United Kingdom except with the leave of an Immigraton Officer. (3) Leave shall not be given to an alien to land in the United Kingdom unless he complies with the following conditions, that is to say : (a) He is in a position to support himself and his dependents. (b) If desirous of entering the service of an employer in the United Kingdom he produces a permit in writing for his engagement issued to the employer by the Minister (c) He is not a lunatic, idiot, or mentally deficient. (e) He has not been sentenced in a foreign country for any (f) He is not the subject of a deportation order in force under the Principal Act, or any Order in Council thereunder, or of an expulsion order under the Aliens Act, 1905. (g) He has not been prohibited from landing by the Secretary of State. (h) He fulfils such other requirements as may be prescribed by any general or special instructions of the Secretary of State. Every alien passenger has on arrival to furnish to the Immigration Officer a landing card containing certain particulars, and is personally examined before leave to land is given in order that the Immigration Officer may satisfy himself as to whether he complies with the requirements of the Aliens Order. The categories comprised in the first six columns of the table are self-explanatory and include, as will be seen, the vast majority of the alien passengers who entered the country. The alien seamen shown in column 7 are for the most part seamen domiciled in the United Kingdom who had been signed on at British ports and discharged abroad. Columns 8, 9 and 10 contain the aliens, including dependents, who held permits issued by the Ministry of Labour under Article 1 (3) (b) of the Aliens Order. They numbered 6,016, of whom 3,065 were males, 2,846 females and 105 children. Many of the permits issued by the Ministry of Labour are valid only for specified periods, and 2,344 (1,497 males, 845 The "other aliens "comprised in the last three columns of the table are alien passengers who could not be placed in any of the specified categories, and who may be regarded as having come to this country either for permanent residence or to stay for some period exceeding 6 months. They numbered 6,098, of whom 2,401 were males, 2,620 females, and 1,077 children, and of the total 1,946 were Americans, 608 French, 461 Scandinavians, 436 Italians, 361 Dutch, 258 Germans, 233 Poles, 208 Swiss, and 105 Russians, the rest being made up of various nationalities. An analysis has been made of the 6,098 "other aliens " who entered the United Kingdom during 1926. Of this number 1,377 (801 males, 504 females and 72 children) have left the United Kingdom, leaving a balance of 4,721 comprised as follows: 1,536 (916 males, 601 females and 19 children) were students entering the Universities and other educational establishments; 748 (113 males, 331 females and 304 children) were persons in a dependent position coming to join relatives who were able to support them; 927 (203 males, 388 females and 336 children) were visitors who intended to stay more than six months; 263 (150 females and 113 children) were wives and children joining husbands or parents domiciled here; 248 (104 males, 141 females and 3 children) were coming to join religious houses or to do religious work; 224 (133 females and 91 children) were wives and children accompanying their husbands or parents who fall under various categories in this analysis; 117 (39 males, 57 females and 21 children) were persons resident in the United Kingdom returning after a long absence abroad; 4 (males) were entering into partnerships; 92 (38 males, 53 females and 1 child) were members of the families or households of diplomats or consuls; 146 (31 males, 60 females and 55 children) were persons of independent means coming to reside in the United Kingdom; 15 (females) were coming to marry British subjects; 65 (12 males and 53 females) were servants accompanying employers; 27 (24 males and 3 females) were Foreign Trade representatives; 309 (116 males, 131 females and 62 children) were persons who entered the United Kingdom for purposes too varied to permit of tabulation. P This table gives the number of alien passengers who are recorded as having left the United Kingdom during the year, divided into nationalities. An embarkation card containing certain particulars is required from or for each alien passenger who embarks, and the statistics are compiled from the information thus received. As already noted, the number of alien passengers recorded as having embarked during the year exceeded the number recorded as having landed by 2,761. TABLE IV. This table gives the numbers and nationalities of aliens seeking admission who did not satisfy the Immigration Officers or the Medical Inspectors that they complied with the requirements of the Aliens. Order, and were refused leave to land. The total number was 1,943, of whom 73 were rejected on definite medical grounds. With regard to this number, reference to Table II will show that the aliens comprised in Columns 1 to 10 inclusive, being 361,326 out of the total of 367,424, belong to classes of aliens who are likely to have little or no difficulty in satisfying the Immigration Officers that they may properly be given leave to land. It is the aliens of the class comprised in the last three columns of Table II who require the strictest scrutiny. The total number who sought admission was 8,041, of whom 6,098, as already shown, were able to satisfy the Immigration Officers that they complied with the provisions of the Order, and 1,943, or about 24 per cent., failed to do so and were refused leave to land. TABLES V. AND VI. These tables give the numbers and nationalities of transmigrants who entered and left the United Kingdom during the year, showing also ports of arrival and departure, whence they came and their destination. Transmigrants are alien passengers who come within the meaning of Article 4 (1) of the Aliens Order, which provides as follows: "Nothing in this part of this Order shall prevent the landing in the United Kingdom of any alien who satisfies an immigration officer :— (1) That he holds a prepaid ticket to some destination out of the United Kingdom and that the Master or Owner of the ship in which he arrived in or by which he is to leave the United Kingdom has given security to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that, except for the purposes of transit or in other circumstances approved by the Secretary of State, the alien will not remain in, or having been rejected by another country will not re-enter, the United Kingdom, and will be properly maintained and controlled during transit." It will be seen from the tables that the number of transmigrants who entered the United Kingdom in 1926 was 52,401, and that the number who left was 52,171. The balance of 230, who had not left the United Kingdom before the end of the year, have since embarked. The total number of transmigrants was 40 per cent. greater than in the previous year, mainly due to the increased immigration into Canada. There was a decrease in the number of transmigrants passing through the country to places in Europe as compared with 1925, but an increase of the transmigrants bound for North America. There are two streams of transmigrants constantly running, one from European countries mainly directed to North America, and the other directed to European countries and flowing mainly from North America. Under the bonds, which the shipping companies carrying this traffic have to give to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Article cited above, the shipping companies are responsible for seeing that all transmigrants leave the United Kingdom, including those who have been rejected by the Immigration Authorities in the country of destination and sent back, except such as may be allowed to remain in the United Kingdom by special permission of the Secretary of State. Close scrutiny is maintained to see that the shipping companies fulfil their obligations, especially with regard to transmigrants who are rejected as undesirable either by the shipping companies themselves after arrival in the United Kingdom or by the Immigration Authorities in the country of destination. During 1926, 46 transmigrants were rejected in the United Kingdom and taken away again by the companies. The number of transmigrants who were rejected and sent back by the Immigration Authorities in the country of destination was 89, all of whom have left the United Kingdom. It will thus be seen that the shipping companies satisfactorily discharged during the year the obligations imposed upon them by the terms of the bonds which they have entered into with the Secretary of State. TABLE VII. The provisions of Part I of the Aliens Order apply to the landing of alien seamen as well as to alien passengers. The master of every ship arriving from a foreign port has to furnish to the Immigration Officer a list of the alien members of his crew with certain particulars, including the port at which they were signed on the articles of the ship. Alien seamen who remain on the ship's articles and do not seek to land for discharge are given temporary leave to land during the stay of the ship in port by means of a notice served on the master, but alien seamen who seek to land for discharge must first obtain permission from the Immigration Officer. Alien seamen who have signed on at British ports are permitted to land for discharge on return to a British port in the same ship, save in very exceptional circumstances. In order, however, to prevent large. accumulations of alien seamen at British ports who would be unable to find employment on ships and who might consequently tend to drift into the general labour market, alien seamen who have signed |