Hong Kong media report that Blind Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his family have completed procedures to leave China.

Chen said in a phone interview with Hong Kong media that he filled out a passport application Wednesday at a hospital where he is staying with an immigration official from his hometown of Shandong Province.

A Hong Kong newspaper projected that Chen’s passport will be issued on June sixth.

Chen, a well-known Chinese human rights activist, made a dramatic escape from house arrest into the protection of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing late April. He has expressed his wish to go to the U.S.