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authorities Information indicates that illegal immigrants from China bound for Europe prefer to travel overland through the former Soviet Union. This route avoids the sort of immigration controls which are applied in Hong Kong.

6. [Finally, it should be noted that Hong Kong British Dependent Territory Citizens and British Nationals (Overseas) have to go through rigorous procedures in order to acquire a number of their passports; and that, although there

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references to Hong Kong in WGI 1548 Rev 1, there are allegations of forged Hong Kong papers having been used.]