Appointment for Immigration Visa and health check at the American Consulate , Wijnhaven 147 in Rotterdam at 11.00 am.

It looked so promising for a while, his papers were stamped with the declaration that ‘Alien will land with 60 dollars and railroad ticket to destination’.
The form was properly filled in; Antoon had never been in prison or almshouse or in an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane.
He had to declare not to be a member of any of the following classes of individuals, 1) Idiots, 2) Imbeciles, 3) Feeble-minded, 4) Epileptics, 5) Insane persons, 6) Persons having had previous attacks of insanity, 7) Persons with constitutional psychopathic inferiority, 8)Persons with chronic alcoholism, 9) Paupers, 10) Professional beggars, 11) Vagrants, 12) Persons afflicted with tuberculosis, 13) Persons afflicted with loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, 14) Criminals, 15) Polygamists, 16) Anarchists, 17) Members of unlawful organizations, 18) Prostitutes, 19) Procurers, 20) Contract labourers, 21) Persons likely to become public charges, 22) Persons previously deported, 23) Persons whose passage paid by another, 24) Unaccompanied children, 25) Natives of Asiatic barred zone, 26) Illiterates, 27) Aliens ineligible to citizenship’.