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Cablegram about non-European immigration applications
[Letterhead in red ink: 'DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS', 'INWARD CABLEGRAM']
[Right margin is shaded in red with black text: 'CONFIDENTIAL'.]
[Handwritten in blue ink, top right corner] 66/7143
[Stamped in red ink: 'RECEIVED', '26 FEB 196', 'P.M.'s DEPARTMENT SECRET REGISTRY'.]
EOB
26/2/69
FROM
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
TEL AVIV
I.18511
TOD 25.1700 LT
TOR 26.0123 LT
[Heading:] 96 CONFIDENTIAL IMMEDIATE
FOR IMMIGRATION.
NON – EUROPEANS.
YOUR MEMO NO 67/71481 AND TELEGRAM AP18.
THIS POST HAS ISSUED NO VISAS TO NON – EUROPEANS SINCE MARCH 1966 AND WE HAVE NO RECORD OF ANY APPLICATION BEING FOUND PRIMA FACIE INELLIGIBLE.
(ALL APPLICATIONS WE RECEIVE ARE ACCEPTED FOR INTERVIEW BY THE SELECTION OFFICER AND ANY DOUBTS ARE REFERRED TO CANBERRA).
2. OUR RECORDS SHOW THAT SINCE MARCH 1966 TWO INDIANS (ISRAELI CITIZENS) APPLIED BUT DID NOT PROCEED WITH THEIR APPLICATIONS (IMMIGRATION FILE 67/65930). SOME SIX APPLICATIONS (FROM ARABS AND ISRAELIS) HAVE BEEN REJECTERD BY CANBERRA AFTER THE SELECTION OFFICER CAST DOUBTS ON THEIR BEING CONSIDERED AS EUROPEANS UNDER THE TERMS OF CONSULAR INSTRUCTIONS CHAPTER 4, PART VII.
