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STRY NO. 51
XCR (81) JAN 1981
Comy INDEX
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Immigration Ordinance (Chapter 115)
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OBJECTION BY MR VUONG VAN HUY AGAINST REFUSAL OF HIS APPLICATION TO ENTER HONG KONG FROM VIETNAM WITH HIS FAMILY
SCISTRY Action Teken
A
At Annex A for the consideration of Members is an objection by Mr Vuong Van Huy under section 53 of the Immigration Ordinance (Chapter 115), against the Director of Immigration's decision to refuse his application to enter Hong Kong with his wife, Nguyen Thi Tran, and two daughters, Vuong Thi Cheng and Vuong Thi Phanh, for residence.
Background
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Mr Vuong Van Huy is a Vietnamese of Chinese origin. He was born in Nam Vang, Vietnam on 18th October 1922. He is now residing in Ho Chi Minh City with his wife who was born in Kg-Chhnang, Vietnam, on 25th May 1923 and two daughters who were born in Cambodia in 1968 and 1969 respectively. His only connections in Hong Kong are his cousins.
3
Mr Vuong first applied for entry in July 1977 claiming that he and his wife were former Hong Kong residents. This application was refused
on 4th January 1978 as their claims of former residence were not substantiated.
4
Since then, Mr Vuong has submitted several further applications through the British Embassy in Hanoi to resume residence, as well as to join a distant relative in Hong Kong. The most recent application was refused on 20th August 1980 and it is against this refusal that the objection dated 23rd August 1980 is lodged.
Director of Immigration's comments
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On receipt of the petition the Director of Immigration carefully re-checked the evidence submitted by Mr Vuong and his wife in support of their claim to have resided in Hong Kong between 1961 and 1968. Major discrepancies were noted which led to the suspicion that the couple in Vietnam were not the rightful holders of the Hong Kong identity cards. The fingerprints on their Vietnamese identity cards were then compared, by the Police Identification Bureau, with the thumb prints on the Hong Kong identity card records, and were found to be not identical. The Director of Immigration is not satisfied therefore that Mr Vuong and his wife are former residents.
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