(including

1,177

16,978

To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 28, Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1;
York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff;

or 120, George Street, Edinburgh;

or through any Bookseller.

Cmd. 2407

1925. Price 4d. Net.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

EXPLANATORY NOTES

TABLE I-Summary of Alien Passengers (excluding Transmigrants) landed and embarked in the United Kingdom, showing ports of arrival and departure, whence they came and their destination

TABLE II-Particulars of Alien Passengers (excluding Transmigrants) landed in the United Kingdom, classified according to nationality and reason for coming

TABLE III.-Number of Alien Passengers (excluding Transmigrants) embarked in the United Kingdom, classified according to nationality

TABLE IV.-Alien passengers refused leave to land in the United Kingdom, classified according to port of arrival and nationality

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TABLE V-Number and nationalities of Transmigrants who entered the United Kingdom, showing ports of arrival and whence they came 15-16

TABLE VI.-Number and nationalities of Transmigrants who left the United Kingdom, showing ports of departure and their destination 17-18

TABLE VII.-Alien seamen who applied to land for discharge in the United
Kingdom

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Statistics in regard to Alien to Alien Passengers who entered and left the United Kingdom in 1924, with comparative figures for 1923.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

TABLE I.

This table gives the bulk movement inwards and outwards of alien passengers during 1924. The traffic both inwards and outwards shows a large increase over the figures for 1923, which was no doubt caused to some extent by the attraction of the Empire Exhibition.

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:

It will be seen that of the total of 388,129 alien passengers who entered the United Kingdom only a very few hundreds arrived elsewhere than at approved ports. The number of alien passengers who left the United Kingdom exceeded the number who entered by 185. 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; see also Note to Table III in regard to movements of alien seamen. For the meaning of "transmigrants," who are not included in this and the three following tables, see Note to Table V.

This table gives, under certain categories, the nationalities of the 388,129 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
of Labour.

(c) He is not a lunatic, idiot, or mentally deficient.
(d) He is not the subject of a certificate given to the Immi-
gration Officer by a medical inspector that for medical
reasons it is undesirable that the alien should be
permitted to land.

(e) He has not been sentenced in a foreign country for any
extradition crime within the meaning of the Extradi-
tion Acts, 1870 to 1906.

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 3,533, of whom 1,815 were males, 1,640 females and 78 children. Many of the permits issued by the Ministry of Labour are valid only for specified periods, and 1,209 (750 males, 447 females