(b)
Priority dependants still waiting in Vietnam
400
(c)
Applications deferred and pending (nearly all are dependants of
16,000
dependants)
(d)
Applications refused as completely
outside policy
16,000
36, 522
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The 400 priority dependants still in Vietnam referred
to at paragraph 11(b) above all hold Hong Kong entry permits and their journey here now depends on how long it takes to arrange two or three more special flights.
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The 16,000 outstanding applications referred to at
paragraph 11(c) above comprise:
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(a)
(b)
7,000 applications which are outside policy and involve no exceptional humanitarian factors. It is now proposed to start notifying them of refusal. This has not been done until now so as not to cause undue alarm among the Chinese in Ho Chi Minh City at a particularly delicate stage in the organising of special flights for priority dependants.
9,000 applications which fall within the 1968 policy (see paragraph 5) and which would need to be approved in due course so long as this policy extends to stateless dependants in Vietnam.
The 9,000 cases referred to at (b) above are cause for serious concern, the more so as their number is growing at 100 a week. They are almost all dependants of dependants, and if they were now approved under the 1968 policy, it would be only a matter of time before they in turn sponsored their dependants, and so on. The Director of Immigration believes that the result could be an addition to Hong Kong's population of 150,000 or more people within ten years
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