CONFIDENTIAL IAL ENTIAL
CC
J1350
To: PA
From:
HSI
10 July 1978
CRITERIA FOR THE ISSUE OF CHINA EXIT PERMITS (CEPS)
1. Probably the best source of information on the above subject presented himself at our No 1 Section this week. He was a legal immigrant from Shatien Commune in Huiyang County, Kuangtung Province who left China in June 78. His occupation was school teacher.
2. In early 1977 Source received a letter from his aged uncle who owned a medicine shop in Hong Kong. The uncle asked Source if he would be prepared to emigrate from China in order to run the shop.
3. In Mar 77 Source wrote to the Kuangtung Provincial Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Canton and asked who was eligible to apply for an exit permit and how application should be made. He gave all his personal particulars and reasons for wishing to leave China. Two weeks later he received a letter telling him he should direct his enquiries to the PSB authorities of the County in which he lived. In Apr 77 he took this letter
to the Huiyang County PSB where an official granted him an interview and explained that people of the following categories were eligible to apply for CEPs:
Overseas Chinese i.e. those Chinese who had been born abroad.
a.
1.
Overseas Chinese dependants who had parents or relatives living abroad.
C. Residents who had aged relatives abroad with no children there to look after them. The official told Source that he was qualified to apply for an exit permit under this category.
d. Aged and sick people who wished to receive medical treatment abroad.
e.
People who had property or a legacy to takeover
abroad.
This
f. People who had relatives living abroad. category was issued with an exit permit for a short visit.
(Comment: Source could not provide a definition of the term 'relative' in the above categories).
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10 JUL 1978 But I. 18 no SC So
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