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of the United Kingdom and Colonies and British Protected Persons from dependencies or former dependencies (including those from East Africa) and British Subjects without Citizenship, who have settled in the United Kingdom for a specified period; and on women citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies who would not qualify in their own right for British Citizenship but whose husbands become British Citizens.
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It would be the intention that British Citizens
only British Citizens should have an unqualified right of free entry to the United Kingdom; but there are some people who now have such a right who would not become British Citizens under these proposals, and there might be a case for allowing them to retain this right for their lifetimes.
Movement within the European Community
The present definition of "United Kingdom national" for European Community purposes would need to be redrawn, in consultation with our partners in the community, so that in general all British Citizens would have the same freedom of movement within the territory of the Community.
Transmission to children born abroad
It is suggested that women, as well as men, should be able to transmit their British Citizenship to their children born abroad; but that transmission should be generally confined to the first generation so born. acquisition of citizenship by consular registration of births of the second and subsequent generations would cease.
Acquisition by virtue of marriage
The
Under the present nationality law of the United Kingdom, a woman who marries a man from the United Kingdom has the right to acquire her husband's citizenship. But a man from overseas who marries a woman from the United Kingdom
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