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11 JUL 1990

AND TO IMMEDIATE ADEN, BUDAPEST, EAST BERLIN PRAGUE, WARSAW

FOLLOWING FROM THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION

DSP VOLUME 52 HONG KONG

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UL 1990

LIST OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES

1

FOLLOWING A REVIEW OF OUR POLICY ON THE ADMISSION TO HONG KONG OF EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVBLOC NATIONALS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO DELETE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (GDR), PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN (PDRY), CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZE), HUNGARY AND POLAND FROM OUR LIST OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN DSP VOL 52. THE EFFECTIVE DATE WILL

BE 16 JULY 1990.

2. AS A RESULT OF THIS CHANGE, THE SEPARATE VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR EAST GERMANY WILL BE ABOLISHED. EAST GERMANS WILL BE TREATED AS WEST GERMANS. FOR NATIONALS OF THE FORMER PDRY, THEY WILL BE TREATED FOR VISA PURPOSES IN THE SAME MANNER AS WAS THE YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC.

3. FOR THE EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES OF POLAND, HUNGARY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA, VISA PROCESSING TIME WILL BE REDUCED TO 10 WORKING DAYS AND PURPOSE OF VISIT WILL BE RELAXED TO INCLUDE TOURISM AND

VISITS FOR PLEASURE.

4. GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD INFORM POSTS OF THE FOREGOING CHANGES AND

ARRANGE FOR AMENDMENT OF DSP VOL 52 ON THE FOLLOWINGS :

(A) DELETE THE ABOVE FIVE COUNTRIES FROM THE LIST OF COMMUNIST

COUNTRIES IN PARA 6.1.1:

(B) AMEND ANNEX I FOR GDR AS NO VISA IS REQUIRED FOR A VISIT OF UP

TO ONE MONTH:

(C) YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC IN PARA 6.7 SHOULD BE REPLACED BY THE NEW

NAME REPUBLIC OF YEMEN AND