TNAG-0170-FCO40-206-British-Trade-Commissioner-1969 — Page 45

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CONFIDENTIAL

Hong Kong Department,

9 July, 1969

GAVI/194

Thank you for your letter 40/2 of 13 June about entry facilities for Hong Kong Chinese visiting this country.

As you noted, procedures have been streamlined and there should now be a saving of about fourteen days in dealing with applications. This is not, however, because of anything Hong Kong Special Branch agreed to do, but because we at this end decided to dispense with routine security checks in Hong Kong.

Migration and Visa Department are very keen to discuss Collard's proposals for further improvements in the system when he comes on leave in September, and I hope that as a result the time taken for processing applications can be further reduced. It would be helpful, however, if Collard could reply to Mallett's letters of 28 April and 16 May; at the moment we only know that an improvement has taken place, but we have no idea what instructions have been issued in Hong Kong.

(W. S. Carter)

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H. P. V. Hannam, Esq.,

British Trade Commission in Hong Kong,

7th Floor,

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Queen's Road, Central,

HONG KONG,

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