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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 9, 1917.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 492. The following Joint Order of the Department of State and of the Depart- ment of Labor of the Government of the United States, requiring passports and certain information from Aliens who desire to enter the United States during the War, is pub- lished for information.
JOINT ORDER REQUIRING PASSPORTS AND CERTAIN INFORMATION FROM ALIENS WHO DESIRE TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR,
Washington, D.C., July 26, 1917.
To Diplomatic and Consular Officers and Immigration Officers of the United States, Steamship and Railway Lines of the United States
and Other Countries, Aliens, and All Others Concerned.
After due publication of this order in foreign countries every person leaving a foreign country for the United States (except persons starting from Canada) with the purpose of entering, passing through, or touching at a port of the United States shall be required, before he is permitted to enter the United States, to present a valid passport, or other official document in the nature of a passport, satisfactorily establishing his identity and nationality, with a signed and certified photograph of the bearer attached. A wife, or female child under 21 years of age, or male child under 16 years of age, may be included in the passport of the husband or parent, but a photograph of each must be attached to such passport. Each male child 16 years of age or over must carry a separate passport :" Provided, That, where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that passports are denied to seamen to prevent their coming ashore in American ports for purposes of reshipment, the Secretary of Labor may authorize the admission of such seanien without the persentation of passport.
Each passport of an alien must be visaed by an American consulate, or the diplomatic mission if specially authorized, in the country from which the holder starts upon his trip to the United States. If the country from which he starts on his trip to the United States is not the country to which he owes allegiance, he must also have his passport visaed by a diplomatic or consular officer therein of his own country. Moreover, every alien com- ing to the United States must have his passport, or document in the nature of a passport, visaed by a consular officer of the United States, in the country from which he embarks for the United States, or, if he comes by land, from which he enters the United States. The form of such visa should read as follows: Seen. Number-
The bearer is
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to depart for the United States of America between (date) and (date).”
For the purpose of ascertaining the identity, nationality, and objects of aliens enter- ing the United States (except those starting from Canada), each alien, except a duly accredited official, must, after due publication of this order, furnish to the American diplomatic or consular officer who visaes his passport, in the foreign country from which he starts on his trip to the United States, and to the American authorities at the port of entry or elsewhere in the United States, a written declaration setting forth the bearer's name, occupation, and nationality and the names and places of birth of the members of his immediate family who accompany him, and stating the following facts: (1) The date and place of the bearer's birth; (2) the nationality and race of his father and mother; (3) the place of the bearer's last foreign residence and the other places, if any, where he has resided within the past five years; (4) if he has ever been in this country, the dates and objects of his visits and the places and addresses where he resided or sojourned; (5) the date set for his departure for the United States, the port of embarkation, and the name of the ship on which he is to sail, if he goes by water; (6) names and addresses of persons acquainted with the applicant in the country from which he starts and in the United States; (7) the expected duration and object of his proposed visit to this country, the documentary or other proofs of such object submitted, and the place or places in the United States where he expects to sojourn or reside; (8) that the bearer knows and under- stands the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, excluding certain classes of aliens from the United States, and is certain that he does not fall within any of such classes; (9) that the bearer understands that if, on arrival, at a port of the United States, he is found to be a member of a class excluded by said immigration
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