Office of the Historian

791.003/151b

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Teheran (Nielsen)

Washington, May 29, 1928.

Sir: Inasmuch as the Government of Persia has given due notice of its desire to abrogate the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed December 13, 1856, and as the treaty accordingly became ineffective after May 10, 1928, your attention is called to the fact that Persian subjects will not hereafter be entitled to classification as treaty [Page 737] aliens under the provisions of Section 3 (6) of the Immigration Act of 1924.50

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Wilbur J. Carr

  1. Classifying a nonimmigrant as “an alien entitled to enter the United States solely to carry on trade under and in pursuance of the provisions of a present existing treaty of commerce and navigation”; 43 Stat. 153, 155.

    In despatch No. 621, May 31 (not printed), the Department informed the Minister in Persia that its “records indicate that hut two subjects of Persia have obtained non-immigrant visas as treaty aliens since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924”. (File No. 791.003/132a.)

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