TNAG-0611-FCO40-759-Presence-of-Warsaw-Pact-countries-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 85

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on 10 February 1977

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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Noon, Wednesday 9 February 1977.

Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many citizens of Warsaw Pact countries have residence visas in Hong Kong; what is the length of these visas; and what trades or professions these people are engaged in.

Mr Evan Luard.

There are two Soviet Marine Superintendents in Hong Kong on six-month employment visas which the Hong Kong Government are in the process of renewing for a further six months. The Superintendents are accompanied by their wives who hold six-month dependent status visas. There is a Czech national, the wife of a West German businessman, who has been in Hong Kong since 1975 and was last year given a twelve-month extension of stay. There is also a Polish nun entitled to stay in Hong Kong within the validity of her passport (which is due to expire in 1981).

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