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SUBJECT:
Thank you
for your letter of 21 November enclosing a
letter from Miss Anne Dew of Goldney Hall, Lower Clifton
Hill, Bristol B S8 IBH about the problem of Vietname se
refugees in Hong Kong.
share Miss Dew's concern about the
Vietname se boat people who are
We entirely
plight of the 9,500
currently in Hong Kong awaiting resettlement (the largest
number of any place of first asylum in South East Asia),
and are making every effort to resettle them as quickly
as possible. This has become increasingly difficult in
recent years.
As Miss Dew mentions in her letter, we
recently announced that we would accept for resettlement
in the UK s ome 500 Vietnamese refugees, mostly from the
camps in Hong Kong (a few will come from other places of
first asylum in South East Asia). They all have
relatives in the UK, but their cases would normally have
fallen outside the Home Office's immigration criteria for
family reunion cases. Depending on the willingness shown
by other resettlement countries to respond to Hong Kong's
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