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1. During my visit to Saigon I asked Mr Maideen about his plung for the future.
2. He was rather vague but it was clear that he was concerned about what was going to happen to him when he left Vietnam. His immediate intention was to visit the UK (ho made the expected remarks about this being dependent upon HMG giving him an entry certificate) in order to sort out his private affairs. He then told me that he had an English wife who was living in Durham but that he wasn't sure that he could 'salvage that'. We talked about his passport at some length. His attitude to the whole question of his nationality was one of weary resignation but it seemed to me that, although he said that he understood our difficulties, he thought that he bad been badly done to. The three month extension, although improving his immediate prospects, did not really solve anything.
3. I pressed him about his attitude to UK Citizenship, a UK passpor and the immigration position. He eventually told me that a full- blown UK pasaport was what he wanted more than anything else but that he did not want to embarram the Ambassador further by nuking for one. He would also very much like to be able to count on being permitted to settle in the UK if it were ever necessary. He also naid that there was a fair chance that he would want to do so in the longer term. I explained the problems (I know that thin he ben done before but I thought it as well to indicate that we were l taking the business seriously).
4. I explained that the only way in which he could get a passport would be to register as a UK Citizen on the grounds of recidence in the UK (unless changes in the nationality law gave him some el. as a result of his marriage) and that the only reasonable way of establishing residence there free of conditions would be to apply for settlement in order to live with his wife (I do not know i this is possible; she may not want him, but I did not ask him about this). He told me that he had no intention of 'using' his wife in this way and, in any case, it sounded like a fiddle to him and he didn't want to know about it. I am not sure that I succeeded in persuading him otherwise and I certainly didn't change his mind abo his wife.
5. After his visit to the VA, he would go to the Gulf for a while but was not sure whether he would stay. He said that he boped the t 'someone, somewhere' would let him settle and work.
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PJ Richardson
15 July 1977
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