The Government today announced that from September 8 the Immigration Department will revise fees for some services, including the issuance of visas/entry permits and travel documents, as well as despatch services for delivery of travel documents to places outside Hong Kong.

The Government sets and reviews various fees and charges according to "cost recovery" and "user pays" principles, and fees charged should in general be set at levels adequate to recover the full cost of providing the goods or services.

In view of this, fees for the services concerned will be increased by 3% to 51% with the aim of achieving full cost recovery gradually. The fees will have little impact on most people's daily expenses and have limited impact on general business activities.

The department's measures are being enacted to control the cost of providing the services.

Proposed legislative amendments relating to the fee revisions will be tabled at the Legislative Council for negative vetting on July 2. The revisions will take effect after completion of the necessary legislative procedures.

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