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RECEIVED IN REG SAWY NO. 51

(b) Legal Immigration from China 22 MAY 1980

DESK OFFICER.

The Governor said that the administrative

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arrangements for landing legal entrants from2/

China were to be amended. The present system

of requiring entrants to renew their permission

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to stay every three months had not proved to

be a deterrent and had caused large queues

at the Immigration Department. it was now

proposed that all such entrants should be

landed for a period of 180 days at a time

and that after one renewal, when one year

would have elapsed since arrival, they

would become eligible for an identity card.

It was hoped that the Chinese authorities

would, for their part, reduce the period.

for which they issued permits to visit

Hong Kong.

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The Council endorsed the proposed

changes.

(c) Oil Reserves

In response to a question from

Mr. Bremridge, the Financial Secretary

(Acting) confirmed that a memorandum

dealing with oil reserves had been

prepared and had been put on the

agenda for the meeting of the Council

scheduled to be held on Tuesday,

20th May 1980.

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