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TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1992

"FOR THE REMAINDER

OF THE APPLICANTS, THE IMMIGRATION HAS SENT OUT

THOSE 22,981 LETTERS TO DEPARTMENT

IN THE GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL CLASS AND THE DISCIPLINED

WHOSE SERVICES CLASS

SELECTED PROVISIONAL SCORES MAY BRING THEM WITHIN THE QUOTA OF THEIR OCCUPATIONAL GROUP.

THE

"THE LETTER WILL GIVE THE APPLICANT A ROUGH INDICATION OF

INTERVIEW, TIME IN WHICH HE WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND A VERIFICATION HE SAID.

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THE

IN ADDITION, THE SPOKESMAN SAID BY THE END OF LAST MONTH, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT HAD ALSO INFORMED 1,390 APPLICANTS IN THE ABOVE TWO CLASSES WHOSE PROVISIONAL SCORES WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE QUOTA LINE THAT THEIR APPLICATIONS WERE STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION.

QUOTA

APPLICANTS

ON

THE

CAN AT THE

OR BELOW MIGHT EVENTUALLY MOVE ABOVE "THESE LINE, DEPENDING

THEY WHETHER

APPLICANTS OR OTHER SUBSTANTIATE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THEIR APPLICATION FORMS INTERVIEW STAGE," HE EXPLAINED.

THE UNSUCCESSFUL

+

THAT

ALSO ANNOUNCED SPOKESMAN

APPLICANTS WOULD RECEIVE LETTERS THEIR APPLICATIONS WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL.

FROM STARTING

MARCH, INFORMING THEM THAT

APPLICANTS ARE REMINDED TO KEEP THE POSTED OF CHANGES IN THEIR ADDRESSES.

IMMIGRATION

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EMIGRATION RATE LEVELLING OFF

DEPARTMENT

THE LATEST STATISTICS ON EMIGRATION COMPILED BY THE SHOW THAT THE YEARLY EMIGRATION RATE IS LEVELLING OFF AT 60,000 MARK.

GOVERNMENT

THE

AROUND

A THE LATEST STATISTICS ON EMIGRATION, ANNOUNCING

GOVERNMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) THAT AN SPOKESMAN SAID

ESTIMATED 62,000 PEOPLE EMIGRATED FROM HONG KONG IN 1990.

THE ESTIMATES FOR 1991 AND THE PROVISIONAL FORECAST ARE BOTH 60,000.

FOR 1992

MAIN

NEEDED SAID.

"THE STATISTICS ARE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF VISAS ISSUED BY DESTINATION COUNTRIES, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE

. THE FOR THE VISAS TO BE TAKEN UP BY THE EMIGRANTS,

THE

LEAD TIME SPOKESMAN

SAID ON THE ESTIMATES FOR 1991, THE SPOKESMAN COMMENTING FIGURE BROADLY AGREED WITH WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD FORECAST IN 1990.

/HE ADDED

THE