DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: SCORRI REPORT
In Confidence
1.
refugees,
/
and in
As you know, our Departments were, in close contact
last year about the terms of the Government's Reply to
the SCORRI Report on Vietnamese
particular the Report's recommendations on
on the admission
to the UK of further numbers of refugees. One of the
principal SCORRI recommendations accepted by HMG the
relaxation of family reunion criteria for Vietnamese in
camps in countries of temporary asylum has now largely
been implemented. Over 350
350 of the 400-500 refugees in
Hong Kong originally expected to qualify for admission
are now in the UK. At the present rate of resettlement,
over 400 may well have arrived by end-July.
Enclosures flag(s).
2.
For our own
have we
been
part, in accordance
in active
with SCORRI'
using HMG
recommendation
relaxation
other
of our family reunion criteria to persuade
countries to offer additional resettlement places
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