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OCMIAN 1967

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FOLLOWING TELEGRAM NOW REPEATED TO YOU AT REQUEST OF HKD WAS

RECEIVED FROM HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO 1465 OF 13.5.86.

BEGINS

INFO HANOI

FOR HUM FROM JEAFFRESON

MY TELETTER OF 6 MAY : VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

REPATRIATION

INVOLUNTARY

ALSO RELEVANT IS THAT WE HAVE NOW BEEN INFORMED BY THE AMERICANS

HERE THAT THEY THINK THEY WILL SOON RUN OUT OF REFUGEES IN HONG

KONG WHO MEET THEIR RESETTLEMENT CRITERIA. WE REFERRED TO THIS

POSSIBILITY IN OUR TELNO 1357. WE HAVE SOEM FURTHER INFORMATION.

2. THE AMERICANS HAVE CONDUCTED A CASE-BY-CASE REVIEW OF REFUGEES

WHO ARE CONSIDERED POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR RESETTLEMENT IN THE US.

THIS PRE-SCREENING IS DONE BY JVA AND USUALLY THE INS ACCEPTANCE

RATE IS HIGH (90 PERCENT). RECENTLY IT HAS DROPPED TO 53 PERCENT.

THEY NOW ESTIMATE THAT THEY WILL RUN OUT OF REFUGEES WHOM JVA

COULD SUBMIT TO INS BY SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR. THEREAFTER, ALTHOUGH

US RESETTLEMENT PLACES WILL CONTINUE TO BE AVAILABLE THE AMERICANS

HERE THINK THAT THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO FIND ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES

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