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permitting them settlement through the Special Voucher Scheme.
Unless we can given an assurance that the Special Voucher
Scheme will continue for UKPH from East Africa including, in
practice, those East African UKPH now in India, we can expect
serious difficulties with the Indian and East African countries
concerned.
6. All of these issues need further considertion. I should,
therefore, like to suggest that a meeting be held at Assistant
Under-Secretary level between the two departments, in the
first instance, to discuss the outstanding differences. In
these circumstances, I regret that it is doubtful whether the
Home Office timetable can be met.
7.
I am sending copies of this letter to the Private
Secretaries of State for Defence and for Northern Ireland, the
Attorney General, and (because there are also staffing and
expenditure implications for the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office in the introduction of a new Nationality Act) the
Minister of State at the Civil Service Department and the
Financial Secretary.
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