British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 170

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10. CATEGORY A(ii) (£.500 AND THE PROFESSIONS). This category has been virtually closed since 1935 on the ground that £.5OO capital is not enough for the establishment of professional enterprise, and that the professions of law and medicine are already undesirably overcrowded.

Immigration in this category is subject to the discretion of the immigration authority who must be satisfied that the need exists in Palestine for additional members of the several professions.

11. CATEGORY A(iii) (£.250 AND THE CRAFTS). This form of immigration is subject to the discretion of the immigration authority who must be satisfied that the economic capacity of Palestine is such as to allow the prospective immigrant to be absorbed in the practice of his trade or craft. This category of immigration has been virtually closed for some years.

12. CATEGORY A(iii) (SECURED INCOME OF AT LEAST £.4 PER MONTH). Immigration in this category is small in volume. Pensioners and the beneficiaries of trust funds are admitted in this class and, if young enough, augment their secured income by occupational activity in Palestine. The mere deposit of a capital sum in a bank which thereafter pays the minimum amount monthly by drafts on the capital until the capital is exhausted is practically never accepted as qualifying the prospective immigrant in this category unless that person is old in years.

13. CATEGORY A(v) (£.500 and GENERAL ENTERPRISE). Immigration in this category is subject to the discretion of the immigration authority who must be satisfied that the capital is sufficient to ensure reasonable prospect of success in the pursuit to be followed, that the settlement of the prospective immigrant in that pursuit will not cause undue competition and that the prospective immigrant is qualified and physically fit to follow the pursuit. This category of immigration has been virtually closed for some years for the reason that £ .500 is usually not enough to ensure permanent establishment of the prospective settler in Palestine.

14. CATEGORY B comprises persons whose maintenance is assured. The control lies in the fact that a bond is required from the institution making application for the immigrants and that application is made in Palestine to the immigration authority. Conditions of war have virtually extinguished this-form of immigration.

15. CATEGORY B(ii) (PERSONS OF RELIGIOUS OCCUPATION) was a source of some trouble at the end of 1934 and during part of 1935 since the Rabbinical Council assumed responsibility for comparatively

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