TNAG-1181-FCO40-1483-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-into-the--1982 — Page 169

Our Ref: VR/UK

The Hon L M Davies, CMG, OBE.JP

Secretary or Security

Security Branch

Govern ent Secretariat

Central Covernment Offices

Lower Albert Road

Hong Kong

бо

loc.

Dc. for info

J. Bu I miw jl.

dady

RE

HATK 34311

? Nd. 51

~14, April 1982 D

INOLX

Af5

oo Hago Phillies I baby

189

Talton

12.5.82

See G90

Recently, there was a JCRV meeting and, as usual,

I attended ab

J SCEVer.

Discussions centered primarily on domestic considerations such as elgetary matters and negotiations with local authorities. It would appear that agencies are not fucing tik nume Cifficulties as before with housin offers : thene via now coming in, slowly but steadily. Bothing else was of much interest to Hong Kong.

a Home

Dowever, in informal conversation with Office official rained subject of family reunion criteria for Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong.

As you know, at the moment, the same criteria apply to all family reunion cases and these are not relaxed for refugees from Hong Kong: only spouse and minor children (and in cz- ceptional circumet ICOS, pondent parents over 60) would be accepted. Ho intimated, in confidence, that a request through the TCO for family reunion criteria to be liberalized for Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong might be sympathetically considered by the Home Offi

...

Admittedly, this does not offer much practicable relief in numerical terms but you may feel there could be some "publicity" (as well as a little practical value) vis-a-vis other resettlement territories.

You

L