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July

15 July 1993

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

(Attn: Mr John Woodrow}

King Charles Street

LONDON SW1A 2AH

Dear Mr Woodrow,

Nepalese workers in Hong Kong

I refer to your faxed message of 9 July enclosing copy of a letter dated 2 July from Sarah Boardman.

Under the current Immigration policy, a person can only be admitted into Hong Kong for employment if he, or she, possesses a special skill, knowledge or experience of value to, and not readily available in Hong Kong, or if he is in a position to make a substantial contribution to the economy of Hong Kong.

We do allow Napalese to take up employment in Hong Kong. For your reference, the following are some statistics of applications approved over the last two years

Year

Categories/No. of Application

(a)

1991

(1)

Domestic Helpers

18

(ii)

Importation of Labour

16

Scheme

[security guards

waiters] *(0.13%)

(iii) Others

37

Total

71

(a)

1992

(1)

Domestic Helpers

28

(ii)

Importation of Labour

Scheme

39

[security guards,

waiters] *(0.38%)

(iii) Others

Total

34 101

* % against the total number of applications approved under the Importation of Labour Scheme.