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This reduction is designed to accommodate a planned increase in the admission rate of United Kingdom passport holders from East Africa, about which our High Commissioners in Nairobi and Kampala are already engaged in confidential negotiations with the Kenya and Uganda Governments. The restricted level of intake will be maintained not by numerical limits, but by the imposition of selective job criteria. (If the alien system of entry had been fully adopted for Commonwealth citizens the result might have been a large increase in coloured immigration.)
that Commonwealth citizens having parental or grandparental connections with the United Kingdom by birth should be exempt from control. While this concession will be applied globally without discrimination the principal beneficiaries will, of course, be citizens of the Old Commonwealth.
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(Details are still to be worked
(c) that (notwithstanding what is said in paragraphs 12 and 19 of the enclosed paper) Commonwealth students will continue to be exempt from the requirement to register with the police.
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that there is to be no change in the existing arrangements whereby Commonwealth citizens are able to vote as soon as they are included in the electoral register after entry.
You will also note the changes in the future rights of appeal and registration as citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of Crown Service.
5. It is likely that some special arrangements will continue for the Dependent Territories and Malta. Again, details have yet to be confirmed but it is probable that annual quotas of 400 for the Dependent Territories, of which no territory would have more than 200, and 600 for Malta will be agreed. These quotas will be accommodated within the overall ceiling of 2,000 a year.
6. On present plans the Bill will be presented to Parliament at the end of the month or the beginning of February, ready for a Second Reading in mid-February. Until this is done, the details cannot be made public. Commonwealth High Commissioners in London will be seen by the Home Secretary, other Ministers and officials over a period of a week, probably beginning on 18 January or even later, and will be informed of the Government' proposals in confidence. You should be ready, after this has been done, to give such supporting briefing as is necessary to
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to the Government to which you are accredited, bearing in mind that this should be on a confidential busis ponding publication of the Bill.
the Bill.
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Yours ever,
B H Heddy
Migration and Visa Department
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