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THE ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME
The ODP is an administrative arrangement to enable people who meet the UK's standard family reunion criteria under our immigration rules, and who are therefore entitled to enter the UK, to leave
Vietnam. The programme was put in place in 1979 to facilitate a legitimate channel for departures from Vietnam for those eligible, and thereby to reduce the pressure for illegal departures. The rate of departure under the programme is controlled by the Vietnamese authorities and many of those eligible have already waited for years to be permitted to leave. There is no question of ODP being at the expense of resettlement of refugees from Hong Kong.
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