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Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth

Office

King Charles Street

LONDON SW1A 2AH

Dear Department

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Immigration Department

人民入境事務處

6

9 June 1992

HICO 345/4

RECEN

19 JUN 1992

DESK DEFIOSK

INDE

Mr Peter Koi Yuen Liang

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Thank you for your fax message of 28 May.

Hong Kong BDTC passport holders are not normally issued with visas for China. Instead, they need a "Home Visit Permit" from the local branch of the China Travel Service. Local residents are familiar with this practice which is of long standing.

The Visa Office of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong advises that Mr Liang's experience in Berne is nothing new.

Chinese visa posts do not issue visas to holders of Hong Kong BDTC passports who should, instead, apply for a "PRC Travel Permit", copy of which is enclosed.

As regards protection in China, the PRC ethnic Chinese holding Hong Kong BDTC and Therefore,

regards BN (O) passports as Chinese nationals. British consular officials have no formal standing to provide them with consular protection and assistance. Thus, if Mr Liang needs help when he is in China, we can only make informal

Chinese approaches

the authorities on his behalf.

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Please let me know if you require further

information.

Yours ever

No

Anthony W L Ng

for Director of Immigration

7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Fax 圖文傳真 824 1133 · Telex 專用電訊 69996

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