Arrangement for Service Resumption at the Registration of Persons Offices

Attention duty announcers, radio and TV stations

Please broadcast the following as soon as possible and repeat it at suitable intervals:

     The Immigration Department announces that as the Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 8 has been cancelled, services at the Registration of Persons Offices (ROP Offices) – Hong Kong Office, Kowloon Office, Kwun Tong Office and Tuen Mun Office will resume within two hours. Those with appointment booking from 4.30pm onwards today may approach these offices for processing applications for replacement of new smart identity cards made after the end of the Territory-wide Identity Card Replacement Exercise, and applications by persons already in possession of Hong Kong identity cards reaching 11 or 18 years of age.
      
     Services at the Immigration Headquarters and all Branch Offices, the ROP Offices – Yuen Long Office and Fo Tan Office and Births, Deaths and Marriage Registries are suspended today.