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VISIT OF DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE
(SIR LESLIE MONSON)
TO HONG KONG, OCTOBER, 1969
IMMIGRATION OF COMMONWEALTH CITIZENS INTO HONG KONG
On 27 August the Hong Kong Government announced
that with effect from 8 September, 1969, they were
introducing controls over the immigration of
Commonwealth citizens into the Colony.
the scheme of control are
Details of
set out in Foreign and
to Raval brid, 478, a copy o
/a copy dɗ which is required in the case of holders of
Commonwealth telegram No. attached Vises will not be U.K, parsists of visitors & 23. The publicly stated reason for introducing the
controls is the need to limit the immigration into the
Colony of unskilled workers from other Commonwealth countries who contribute nothing to the economy and
who may become a charge on public revenues. In fact
the controls are more specifically directed against the
Who were immigration of unskilled Pakistanis and Indians of whom entering Hong Kong in increasing numbers
there has been an influx during recent months. More-
over, it has been the strongly held view of Chinese
unofficial members of the Hong Kong Executive Council
that unrestricted entry of Commonwealth citizens into
the Colony should not be allowed to continue in view of
the lack of reciprocal facilities for the unconditional
entry of Hong Kong Chinese into other Commonwealth
countries.
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