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The difficulty in achieving a correct classification
is further complicated by the CPG_practice of issuing different documents to Chinese emigrants. Legal immigrants from China enter at Lo Wu on one of the following three documents :-
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CPG Passport : it is believed that this is normally issued where the person is bound for a country (not Hong Kong or Macao) having diplomatic ties with China;
(b) Pink Exit Permit : it is believed that this is normally
issued to "overseas Chinese" and persons born in China where the claimed .country of destination (not Hong Kong or Macao) does not have diplomatic ties with China; and
(c) Green Exit Permit : it is believed that this is normally
issued to persons. born in China where the final destination is Hong Kong or Macao.
In practice, most quota entrants enter Hong Kong with a Green Exit Permit, thus resulting in the mistaken belief that "Green Exit Permit holders" equal "Quota Entrants". However,
However, there are Green Exit Permit holders who are not Cantonese and are therefore classified as "non-Cantonese", or Pink Exit Permit holders who are classified as "Quota Entrants" on the grounds that they have spent a large part of their lives in Kwangtung. The system of issuing different exit permits to different types of persons in China is also not consistent, because they are issued by individual local authorities.
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"Non-quota Entrants" are sub-divided into three
categories:-
(a) CPG Passport holders, which exclude CFG Passport holders with a valid visa to a third country who are landed in transit and are not counted as legal immigrants from China. (These are mostly CPG officials holding CFG "Service" Passport with valid visas to third countries and constitute about 50% of the total number of CPG Fassport holders entering Hong Kong from Lo wu.)
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Overseas Chinese, who were born in and/or lived in an overseas country (most frequently Indonesia and Philippines) for a fairly long time before returning to China; and
(c) Non-Cantonese, those who were neither Quota Entrants,
nor CPG Passport holders, nor Overseas Chinese.
Many of them may have a third country as their ostensible destination but are stranded in Hong_Kong because their country of destination would not accept them. Some of them may also put down their ultimate destination as a third country but who have no wish whatsoever to leave Hong Kong, irrespective of whether that third country would accept them. For example, 90% of the Pink lermit holders, when questioned, claimed that their real intention was to settle/join relatives in Hong Kong. Some of them, however, were finally able to migrate to another country after a period of stay in Hong Kong. It is not possible, with present resources, to identify precisely what proportion of them eventually leave Hong
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