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had no intention of resuming residence in the UK. He thus could
not qualify as a returning resident. Mr Au Yeung did not apply for variation of his leave during his short stay in the United
Kingdom; his stay was in any event too short
short for
for such an
application to have been considered and it would have lapsed when he left the United Kingdom on 20 June.
To put all this into perspective, I should perhaps mention that
in 1987, 1988 and 1989
1988 and 1989 respectively, 2,200, 2,600 and 3,500- British Dependent Territories Citizens from Hong Kong were admitted to the UK as returning residents. The figure for the 3 months following the implementation of new the Rules Change on 1 May was 1,000, exactly in line with previous years. I hope you will agree that this confirms that there has been no change of either policy or practice in relation to returning residents.
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