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INFO ROUTINE UKMIS GENEVA, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON
MIPT : MEMORANDUM OF EX-CHINA VIETNAMESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS (ECVIIS)
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7368 ECVIIS WERE INTERCEPTED DURING THE MASSIVE INFLUX LAST SUMMER.
WITH THE 145 ECVIIS WHO WERE IN HONG KONG BEFORE THE INFLUX BEGAN
AND 23 BABIES BORN TO ECVIIS WHILE IN HONG KONG, TOTAL CUMULATIVE ARRIVALS STOOD AT 7554 AS AT 15.2.88.
2. THE PERSONAL PARTICULARS OF THESE ECVIIS AND THEIR FULL ADDRESSES
IN CHINA HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO PRC OFFICIALS FOR VERIFICATION
THROUGH 46 SUBMISSIONS. 7385 ECVIIS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY
REPATRIATED VIA 17 LAND REPATRIATION EXERCISES AND 4 SEA TRIPS. TWO
ORPHANS WERE ADOPTED BY A FRENCH COUPLE LIVING IN HONG KONG WHILE
TWO ECVIIS DIED SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVAL. AT PRESENT THE NUMBER OF E CVIIS PENDING REPATRIATION STANDS AT 165 (AS AT 15.2.1988). IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR ORIGINAL PLACE OF DOMICILE IN CHINA AND THEIR
PRESENT STATE OF VERIFICATION, THE 165 ECVIIS ARE CATEGORIZED IN 5
GROUPS AS FOLLOWS:-
(1) GROUP I COMPRISING 55 PERSONS FROM FANG CHENG REFUGEE CENTRE.
ARRANGEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE TO REPATRIATE THEM TO QUANGXI ON THE 4TH SEA TRIP, BUT THEY WERE LATER REFUSED ENTRY BY THE PRC AUTHORITI- ES.
(APPENDIX A).
(2) GROUP II 1 ECVII WHO WAS A DOUBLE BACKER FROM NANNING PRISONER
OF WAR RECEPTION CENTRE. THE PRC AUTHORITIES HAD AGREED TO ACCEPT
HIM AT FIRST BUT EVENTUALLY DECLINED HIS RE-ENTRY. (APPENDIX B).
(E) GROUP III COMPRISING 8 PERSONS FROM GUANGXI PROVINCE. APPROVAL FOR THEIR READMISSION HAS BEEN RECEIVED BUT GREEN LIGHT FOR THEIR
REPATRIATION IS AWAITED. (APPENDIX C).
(4)
GROUP IV
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COMPRISING 7 NEWLY ARRIVED ECVIIS WHOSE PERSONAL
PARTICULARS ARE BEING FURTHER INVESTIGATED THEIR ORIGINS ARE:
GUANGXI
GUANGDONG
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