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affairs looked after by an Embassy here (ourselves in the case of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius and the New Hebrides, New Zealand in the case of Western Samoa). In no case are applicants requested to travel to Hong Kong to obtain their visas. If the problem arises over, the need to travel to Peking we can issue Hong Kong transit visas on the basis of postal applications provided sufficient evidence is provided that a visa will be issued in due course (the solution already suggested in the case of countries not represented in Peking).

4. I shall let you know how Zheng reacts. He should by . this week be able to make some response to my earlier

representations (our telno 61).

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Immigration Dept, Hong Kong

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K Sullivan

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