(b) British Overseas Citizenship.
British overseas citizens
have no such right (Green Paper, page 6, top).
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will not and their "returnability" will always be a matter of
doubt to frontier control officers, making it difficult for
them to travel.
The objections of the dependent territories/to the
creation of British Overseas Citizenship have been communicated
to the Home Office from time to time (see Annex II) but the
Home Office officials concerned with changes in the law of
nationality have continued to work within the guidelines laid
down in the Green Paper.
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5. It is necessary for immigration purposes to distinguish
persons who belong to the United Kingdom from persons who
belong to the dependencies. Indeed, that is one of the
principle objects of the Green Paper.: If United Kingdom
nationals who belong to dependencies are given rights of
residence in their dependencies equal to rights of residence
in the United Kingdom given to persons who belong to the
United Kingdom their status would not be evidently inferior.
E. If persons who belong to dependencies are given rights in
their dependencies as proposed in paragraph 5 above it will be
necessary to create another class of national for persons who
have no rights in any territory. This was proposed by the
Governor of Hong Kong when he called on the Home Office (see
minute of 15 June by Mr McLaren of HKGD Annex III). Such
people will of course be at a disadvantage compared with the
rest who have no rights of residence at present so nothing is
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