the Hong Kong Department has full information about
our reuirements and gives them due publicity.
It
is not true that British subjects in Hong Kong are
quired to apply for visas, as is reported in
Mr. Jackson-Lipkin's letter. The Hong Kong Government does, however, strongly advise independent travellers
to Britain to apply in their own interests for entry
certificates to avoid the distress and the expense of
a fruitless journey should they prove to be unqualified
purpose
for admission for the periode or period for which they
wish to enter this country.
You may be interested to
see the enclosed copy of an Information Bulletin issued by the Hong Kong Information Services after consultation
with the Hong Kong Immigration Department.
This
bulletin has come to hand by chance and is a typical
example of the sort of publicity that is put out by
the Hong Kong authorities on various government
activities.
Next as to the system of immigration control
itself. The previous Administration were, as you
know, forced by the pressure of events to interfere
with the hitherto unrestricted right of British
subjects, whether from independent Commonwealth territories or dependent ones, to enter the United
Kingdom, and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act was
accordingly passed.
Since the present government
came into power it has been obliged to restrict still
further the numbers of people allowed to come to work
and settle.
The main feature of the control is that a
person who wishes to come and work here must have a
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