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Committee is likely to be asked to consider some 5000 cases. few orphans have been identified. Those who have no parents tend to be absorbed into family groups, usually of relatives. circumstances, adoption is not usually considered to be the best option for the child. There has only been one case of adoption of a Vietnamese child in recent years. [I am sorry therefore to disappoint you with the news that there are no children available for adoption. If you are nevertheless interested in adopting a child from abroad, you should write in the first instance to the Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office (address Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon, CR9 2BY) who will explain the various steps involved.]
Children whose parents are already in the West would rejoin them under family reunion arrangements. Those whose parents are still in Vietnam have often been sent out in the hope that they will be resettled in the West and will thereby establish a foothold from
If they have no which the rest of the family can be drawn in. genuine claim to refugee status, they will be returned to their parents: the practice of sending children alone out of Vietnam carries high risks for the child and is something we would wish to
discourage.
Ultimately, we hope that all people who wish to leave Vietnam will choose to do so by means of the Orderly Departure Programme, rather than by making the journey to Hong Kong.
I hope it will reassure you to know that much thought has been put into arrangements for unaccompanied children among the boat people. Children will not be sent back to Vietnam unless they have a family to return to; and the right solution will be carefully sought in all cases, in the best interests of the children themselves. monitoring closely the work of the UNHCR Committee.
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