CONFIDENTIAL
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FM IMMIG HONG KONG
TO TELELETTER FCO
TELELETTER IMM/CR 2926
OF 210815Z NOVEMBER 85
FROM:
CNN 340/15-B
STEPHEN KUO, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT HONG KONG
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NATIONALITY AND TREATY DEPARTMENT ECO
FOLLOWING FOR: MISS VEALE
BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZEN
IN DISCUSSION WITH THE PROG, THE QUESTION OF ROCS HAS COME UP
PY WAY OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION, OUR DEPARTMENT HAS PPEPAPER THE
FOLLOWING:-
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THERE IS WIDESPREAD MISCONCEPTION THAT MOST POCS APE LIVING
IN FAST AFRICA WAITING FOR YEARS FOR THEIR SPECIAL VOUCHERS FOR
THE UK. THE PEASON FOP THIS MISCONCEPTION IS THAT TWO YEARS DEFOOR
MENYA EFCAME INDEPENDENT, IT INTRODUCED AN AFRICIANISATION POLICY
AND, WITH IT, SEVERE PESTRICTIONS ON TRADING ACTIVITIES OF
M-KENYAN NATIONALS. MOST ASIAN RESIDENTS IN KENYA PEMAINED
CUKCS WHEN KENYA BECAME INDEPENDENT. THEY WERE THEREFORE DEPRIVES
OF THE IP MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD AND THIS LED TO A TOTAL OF 12
CUKCS FROM KENYA OF ASIAN OPIGIN EMIGRATING TO THE UK BETWEEN
1963 AND 1960. IN ORDER TO LIMIT THIS HUGE FLOW OF IMMIGRANTS
THE UK INTRODUCED THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS ACT 1968 WHICH PESTRICTED THE ENTRY OF SUCH CURCE TO 1,000 A YEAR. MURS THIS COISED WAS OVER, THE QUOTA WAS INCREASES TO 5,000 / YEAR. THE COATHALLY, THE DISSEMINATION AGAINST ASIANS IN KENYA WAS NO CANCER VIGOROUSLY PURSUED AND BETWEEN 1976 AND 1001, UK NATION LS OF ASIAN ORIGIN FROM KENYA USED LESS THAN A THIRD OF THE VOUCHERS
AVAILABLE TO THEM. THE SUDDEN INTRODUCTION OF THE 1969 ACT- ATTRACTED A GREAT PEAL OF PUPLICITY HOPLDWIDE, AS DIR 7 1272
PRESIDENT AMIN'S EXPULSION EN MASSE FROM UGANDA OF 29,000 U NATIONALS OF ASIAN ORIGIN. PUT THE NUMBER OF ROCS LEFT IN UGANT!
IS IN FACT QUITE SMALL SINCE THOSE EXPELLED FROM UGANDA WERE
ADSORBED PARTYLY BY THE UK AND PARTLY BY INDIA.
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THE TRUTH IS THAT THE NUMBER OF POCS IN EAST AFPICA IS NOT LIPOE AND MOST WHO ARE THERE ARE HAPPILY SETTLED.
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