TNAG-2668-FCO40-3865-Hong-Kong-Civil-Service-1993 — Page 108

KNIGHT & HO 852 770 1331

693 P02/01

I, MICHAEL HO CHUNG WAI, an Assistant Principal Immigration

Officer of Immigration Department, Hong Kong, make oath and say as

follows:

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I joined the Immigration Department in 1967. working on Vietnamese operations since August 1986.

2.

as

I have been

I am currently on secondment to the British Embassy in Hanoi

a First Secretary dealing primarily with the repatriation of

Kong under the Orderly Return Vietnamese migrants from Hong Programme and the re-integration programmes for the returnees. have been in this post since 12 February 1992.

3.

I was asked to look at certain papers and then make enquiries in this case in the following circumstances.

I

4.

I was told that the supervising court (the High Court) was looking closely at the claimed facts in support of the case for asylum of Mr LE TU Phương and Madam DINH Thị Bích Chính in its

process of Mr K.N. Ng of the examination of the decision making Immigration Department and of a Refugee Status Review Board chaired

by Mr. Y.H.Ho.

5.

i

the

I was told that while new evidence of fact would not influence the court's examination of the applicants' attacks upon the decision making process, it could be extremely useful in other ways. While proceedings for judicial review are underway, response of the Administration to those proceedings could be materially influenced by evidence tending to support the claims of the applicants. In addition, in view of the applicants' claims was the,contingent possibility that the Immigration Department would