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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES' RESETTLEMENT IN UK: MEETING AT HOME OFFICE, 21 JANUARY 1986
1.
cases.
This meeting was called to review the administrative arrangements for processing the SCORRI family reunion A total of 19 people attended including:
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
30 JAN 1986
HO (IND):
Mr Raws thorne Mr Handley
Miss Hebden
Mr Wells
HO (VSU):
Mr Lewis
HKGO:
DECK OFFICER
INDEX
PA
REGISTRY
Action Taken
UNHCR:
BRC:
хо
Refugee
open I hope
CODE 18-77 AWO Ltd. 7/84
Mr Lawrence
Mr Tang
Mr von Arnim +
Mr Barber +
Action:
MS
Ockenden Venture: Mr Denton
Mr Nguyen
due to
wit MK. with h. Chitnis next with.
Meiklejohn
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2
FAMILY REUNION CASES
2.
realised.
involved
than I had Action and
to
The process in UK is more
The 2 voluntary agencies (Refugee Ock end en Venture) each draw up a monthly list of about 30 prospective sponsors with relatives in camps in Hong Kong eligible for resettlement. Lists provided by Hong Kong are the agencies' major source, supplement ed by their own records. The Hong Kong lists frequently are ou t of date as regards addresses and the agencies find it difficult locate refugees who have moved once regular contact with them has ceased. In addition up to 25% of sponsors' names on the HKG lists were unknown to them. The agencies check that prospective sponsors are still willing and that housing in a refugee centre, local authority accommodation or wi th a sponsor is available. They need to organise housing for 80% of families resettled. The agencies' lists are further scrutinised by BRC (Mrs Kemp) who forwards a unified list to the Home Office. After HO has checked the lists it "calls forward" by means of telex to the HKG.
those
3.
In Hong Kong, Immigration Department locate called forward and place those to be resettled in transit centres until they travel to UK; travel arrangements are made by ICM. Address problems occur here where addresses outside the camps are used. Mr Tang, in answer to a question from one of the
the agencies, said that very few refugees live outside
yen! closed
camps.
More frequently refugees listed by the
agencies may have been resettled elsewhere.
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