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(II) Summary Statistics
A. Total number of refugees in open centres
=
5,921
Total number of refugees in closed centres = 6,065
Total
= 11,986
B. Ethnic Chinese from the North Ethnic Chinese from the South Ethnic Vietnamese from the North Ethnic Vietnamese from the South
Total
C. Analysis of Refugee Caseload in Hong Kong
=
=
2,523 (21.1%) 161 (1.3%) -3,873 (32.3%) =5,429 (45.3%)
≈ 11,986 (100%)
Open Centres
Closed Centres
Accepted cases
232
1,076
Submitted and pending
results
1,027
1,718
"Active" cases**
4,612
3,321
Total: 5,871
6,115
D. Total number of refugees with close relatives (including siblings) in UK
Accepted/submitted
and pending results
"Active" cases
Open Centres
78 278
Closed Centres
34
64
E. Total number of refugees with close relatives in UK having previously refused a resettlement offer = 48
Security Branch
Government Secretariat
Date: 3 January 1985
Appendix II
RESETTLEMENT IN USA
Admission Criteria
The US Government has since 8 March 1982 applied a new set of criteria on the admission of Indochinese refugees.
Priority 1: Compelling concern/interest.
Priority 2: Former US Government Employees.
Priority 3: Family Reunification (spouses, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, unmar-
ried siblings).
Priority 4: Other ties to the US (employees of US foundations, voluntary agencies or firms, persons who played a meaningful role in the social, economic, political, religious, intellectual or artistic life of the former societies of Indochina). Priority 5: Additional Family Reunification (married siblings, grandchildren, relatives
dependent on US family for support).
Priority 6: Otherwise of National Interest.
The applicants concerned must satisfy the US Government that they have fled their homeland for political reasons, that is, they fall within the definition of a refugee. In early August 1983, a working level meeting of US State Department and INS officials was held
**"Active" cases are cases for which no submissions have been made or which have been submitted and rejected by at least one resettlement country.