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(a) His Department apologised for not having answered your letter about the future. A reply should reach you soon.
(b) It would be unconstitutional for Hong Kong Immigration Department to deal direct with the Vietnamese authorities so, if Maideen's organisation was dismantled, all correspondence would have to come through ua, even if only to be passed on under compliments slip. would give this Embassy more work, not less; so would the fact that we would have to handle enquiries direct from people in the South.
(c) They believed that the numbers of Chinese applying to go to Hong Kong would diminish, not increase.
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We did arrange that in future, Hong Kong Immigration Department will post ID 2588 direct to the people to whom they have been granted in this country. It appears that Immigration Department believed that these documenta had to be passed through the Red Cross or some similar organisation. ¡r Maideon assured them that this was not 60. He also thought it unlikely that the ID 2588 would be lost in the post. Letters take up to two weeks to reach South Vietnam from Hong Kong but few of them fail to arrive.
E B W Luko
25 April 1977
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South-East Asian Department
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Mr Readman
Hong Kong Immigration Department
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