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12. First, as I explained to the House earlier careful
consideration is being given to the Select Committee's
recommendations on the Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong. These include a recommendation that the family reunion criteria should be relaxed to encompass a wider range of relatives in camps in countries of temporary asylum which would include parents and brothers and sisters. The hon. Member will appreciate that I am not in a position to announce a decision on their recommendation, but it is of course directly relevant to Miss Bui's relatives'
case.
13. Secondly, before the Select Committee reported, I gave an undertaking to the British Refugee Council to review those cases in which applications for relatives in Hong Kong had been refused but where the BRC considered there to exist exceptionally compelling and compassionate circumstances. We have received a
number of cases from the BRC and Miss Bui's case was among them.
14. I cannot give the hon. Member a decision tonight but I can assure him that I shall review the case very sympathetically in the light of the BRC's representations and of what he has said
tonight on behalf of Miss Bui and her relatives.
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