10 February 1977
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Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many citizens of Warsaw Pact countries have residence visas in Hong Kong; what is the length of these visas; and what trades or professions these people are engaged in.
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MR EVAN LUARD
There are two Soviet Marine Superintendents in Hong Kong on six-month employment visas which the Hong Kong Government are in the process of renewing for a further six months. The Superintendents are accompanied by their
There is wives who hold six-month dependent status visas. a Czech national, the wife of a West German businessman, who has been in Hong Kong since 1975 and was last year
There is also a given a twelve-month extension of stay.
Polish nun entitled to stay in Hong Kong within the validity of her passport (which is due to expire in 1981).