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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Telephone 01- 233 4439

Your reference

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Simon Sit Esq

Refugees Division

Security Branch

Government Secretariat

HONG KONG

Dear Simon,

SCORRI:

1.

Our reference

HKK 243/2

Date

10 October 1985

VIETNAMESE REFUGEE FAMILY REUNION CASES

In our telegram no 1442 we advised you that the Home Office were grateful for your offer to process the family reunion cases locally, and that they would be in touch about these in due

course.

2.

The Home Office have now written to provide us, BRC,

BRC, and UNHCR (London) with more details of the procedures they envisage for processing these cases. I enclose a copy of the Home Office letter and its attachments.

3.

You will no doubt wish to consider these procedures in some detail with your Immigration Department. The Home Office would be grateful if you could indicate in stage-by-stage summary form how your procedures at the Hong Kong end would fit in with these proposals: If you could let us know, I shall pass your advice on

to the Home Office.

4.

Any other comments you have on the enclosures will of course be welcome. I have one query: Stage II in the Home Office. letter to BRC suggests that the monthly lists go from Home Office to us to you (and then to Hong Kong Immigration Department?). I wonder whether we should suggest that for this stage the Home Office use their telex link to your Immigration Department direct, as they will for the later entry clearance authorisations? What do you think?

MKK 243/2

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

10 OCT 1985

DESK OFFICER

INDEX

REGISTRY

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Action Takon

(PS. You may wish this exercise, Mr scene quite well:

I think, when I met

to

You's fre Chito

CE Leeks

Hong Kong Department

bear in mind that BRC's representative in Graeme

Jackson, knows the Hong Kong refugee he has visited Hong Kong at least once, in 1983

him!)