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
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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.