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Immigration officers on overseas training

Seven officers of the Immigration Department will receive training in Europe and USA starting this month.

Acting Assistant Principal Immigration Officer, Mr Leung Ping-kuen; Chief Immigration Officer, Messrs Chan Yiu-sang and Chan Kwok-hung, and acting Chief Immigration Officer, Mr Kwong Ki-shun, will leave for the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany on an eight-week study of the immigration procedures in those countries.

Acting Assistant Principal Immigration Officer, Mr Leung Ka-ching, and Chief Immigration Officer, Mr Huen Shu-sum, will spend four months in the study of programme and project development at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Senior Immigration Officer, Mr Chan Man-pok, will also spend four months at the same University in the study of administrative skills.

At a briefing before the officers' departure, acting Director of Immigration, Mr Christopher Lee Ka-keung, said he attached great importance to officers of the department receiving overseas training as well as establishing contacts with and learning from the experience of foreign immigration services.

He noted that the study trips would assist officers in self development and enable them to have a better understanding of the different social and cultural background of overseas visitors whom they would meet in the course of their duties.

Mr Lee emphasised that the department fully recognised the long-term benefits that could be achieved through these overseas trips and courses and that every effort would be made to provide officers with such opportunities.

He urged the officers to make the best use of the opportunity to widen their horizon and to achieve self enrichment.

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