FREEDOM of travel after 1997 will be on the agenda when immigration chief Laurence Leung Ming-yin briefs Preliminary Working Committee (PWC) members in Beijing next week.
Mr Leung, the Director of Immigration, will talk to the PWC security sub-group about the right of abode and nationality and will explain the complex nature of the issues surrounding future permanent residency and travel documents.
The Government has accepted an invitation from the sub-group for the briefing and will send Mr Leung to attend an 'informal' session.
The Government bans formal contacts between civil servants and the PWC.
The sub-group's co-convenor, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, had written to the Secretary for Security, Peter Lai Hing-ling, asking him to send an official delegation to brief members on the issues during a meeting in Beijing on April 23 and 24.
Mr Leung will hold another round of expert meetings with his Chinese counterpart on the same issues at about the time of the PWC meeting.
