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stateless persons, and is able to satisfy him that he does not possess the citizenship or nationality of any other country; and
Anyone able to satisfy the Home Secretary of the matters required in the case of stateless persons and is able to satisfy him that he does not have (or is able and willing to renounce) the citizenship or nationality of any other country; and has been ordinarily and lawfully resident in the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands or Isle of Man, or has been engaged in Crown Service (or partly the one and partly the other) for at least five of the seven years preceding the application; and that he intends to continue or resume doing so in the event of his being naturalized.
Naturalisation, like Registration, would require also an affirmation of allegiance and a nominal fee. Anyone whose application for naturalization is turned down by the Home Secretary should have a proper right of appeal. Appeals could be heard by the adjudicators and Tribunal created by the Immigration Act.
If implemented, these proposals would simplify the existing law considerably. They would assimilate the positions of aliens and Commonwealth citizens and would help to absorb stateless persons and U.K. nationals without citizenship into the population as a whole.
Citizenship by adoption would be conferred upon any child adopted in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man if either of his adoptive parents had that citizenship at the time of the adoption or if he would otherwise be statless.
The enactment giving rise to the status of "citizen of the United Kingdom" should contain transitional provisions to confer that status automatically upon anyone who at the time of its enactment is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth or descent from a person born in the United Kingdom, the Channel Island: or the Isle of Han, or by registration, naturalization or adoption there.
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CITIZENSHIP OF DEPENDENCIES
The same enactment should enable the competent authorities in dependencies to create their own citizenships. Southern Rhodesia was considered competent to create and confer its own citizenship in 1950, although not independent. There seems no reason why this principle should not be extended. Since a dependency cannot, by definition, bear responsibility and assert rights for individuals on the international plane, citizens of dependencies would also be nationals of the United Kingdom. Thus, when the goverment of a dependency issued a passport to one of its c.tizens that passport might indicate that the bearer may look for protection to E.K. Government of the United Kingdom.
The capacity to create separate citizenships could be conferred not only upon colonies but also upon protectorates (the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in particular).