ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME AT EXPENSE OF RESETTLEMENT FROM HONG
KONG
ODP is administrative arrangement to enable people who meet UK's standard family reunion criteria under our immigration rules,
and who are therefore entitled to the enter the UK, to leave
Vietnam.
Rate of departure under the programme controlled by Vietnamese authorities. Many of those eligible have already waited for years
to be permitted to leave. No question of ODP being at the expense
of resettlement of refugees from Hong Kong.
REGIONAL HAVEN FOR VIETNAMESE
All our research on this idea leads us to conclude that no
country in the area would be receptive to the idea of the creation within its territory of what would, in practice, be an isolation
centre for stateless persons.