TNAG-0971-FCO40-1190-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-in-the-UK-1980 — Page 164

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CONFIDENTIAL

DSR 11 (Revised)

LETTER

DRAFT:

minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

FROM:

Reference

Mr Murray

DEPARTMENT:

John Margetson Esq., CMG

HANOI

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION|

TO:

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

CAVEAT....

..In Confidence

TEL. NO:

Your Reference

SUBJECT:

Copies to:

G L Angel, Esq., Home Office,

Lunar House, 14 Wellesley Road, Croydon, CR9 2BY

(with reference to your letter IMG/79 58/1026/5 of 28 March to Burns, SEAD).

Dr D C Wilson, Political Adviser

Hong Kong

MVD, UND, HKGD

Enclosures-flag(s)..................

REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM: EMBASSY WORKLOAD

FAMILY REUNIONS AND HANOI

1. Leonard Figg and I have read with concern and interest your series of letters (243/9) of 21 March to me (not to all) setting out a number of problems, both practical and political, arising from current policy on family reunion for Vietnamese refugees accepted in the United Kingdom. I have since also seen your letter under the same reference of 27 March to Kevin Burns about the orderly departure programme. At my request, on 9 April, SEAD called a meeting of interested FCO Departments, at which a representative of the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Department was also present. This letter is to let you know what action we have in hand, though by the time it reaches you various aspects may have been overtaken by subsequent action.

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Your letters raise two sets of questions. The first is how to reduce to a level consistent with the Embassy's resources and other tasks the burden of processing individual case papers from Vietnamese refugees, their

/families

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