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Director of Immigration
Ref. (139) in IMM/CR 17/800
Secretary for Security To (Attn:
(Attn: Mrs Lessie Wei)
Destroy after
Register Mo14
Received in Registry
20FEB 1989.
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Date.
14 February 1989
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PRIORITY
Macau and Portugal's Membership of the EEC
One of the benefits which Chinese Portuguese from Macau derive from Portugal's membership to the EEC which has so far received no publicity is that they have been paying 'home-fees" at Universities and Polytechnics in the UK.
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It is of some importance that we should be prepared to deal with the situation when knowledge of this benefit gains wide public currency as one day it must.
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Hong Kong students since 1979/1980 have been paying foreign students' fees which now amount to about
Medical £4,000 a year for art and science subjects. studies cost about £7,000 a year. All fees are reviewed yearly. Living expenses vary and in general become lower the further the University is from London. For the purpose of this note Oxford and Cambridge need not be discussed.
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At present students settled in UK (i.e. free of restriction on length of permitted stay, and EEC nationals who have been ordinary resident in the UK for three years or more pay "home fees" i.e. £600 a year and are entitled to a statutory grant from the
LEA for that amount. They may also obtain a non-statutory allowance to cover their day to day living (including cost of textbooks) which is assessed through a means test administered to their parents.
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Dishonest BCs and EEC nationals have had no problem in deceiving many a University authority on residential requirements: BCs' passports are not stamped nor are EEC nationals' identity cards. EEC nationals, which now include Chinese Portuguese nationals from Macau, may study Chinese at Leeds University or at the London School of Oriental and African studies,
or Portuguese at King's College, London, where the most prestigious scholar of Portuguese, Camões Professor of Portuguese is to be found all for a song.
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