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Annex G

Immigration Policy on Entry of Dependants

from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Reference XCC (78) 20

With effect from 14 March 1978 entry for settlement was restricted on the advice of members to :-

(a) wives;

(b) husbands;

(c)

(d)

unmarried dependant children under 21;

an aged dependant parent living alone in Vietnam whose main family unit is in Hong Kong;

(e)

cases involving particularly strong humanitarian grounds.

2.

Applications under (a), (b), (c) and (d) are entertained only if the sponsor entered Hong Kong legally or had his stay here legalised before 30 April 1975

(the fall of Saigon).

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