CONFIDENTIAL
Overseas Citizen who is such by connection with another
dependency or a former dependency.
The People Concerned
12. Those who become British Overseas Citizens on the
coming into force of the Act will fall into two main groups
as described below.
13. The first group will consist of those people who derive their citizenship from their own or their father's connection (ie birth, naturalisation or registration) with an existing
dependency.
14. The second group may be sub-divided as follows:
There are some who acquire,
some
a) those who owe their citizenship to a remote connection.
with the United Kingdom.
or are descended from those who acquired, a connection
because the United Kingdom used to exercise extra-
territorial jurisdiction in/foreign countries eg Egypt
and Turkey. Others are of remote United Kingdom origin,
being of the third or later generation born outside the
United Kingdom who have obtained citizenship by Consular
registration. They include members of the British
Communities in foreign countries in South America and
elsewhere; they also include members of former German
royal families distantly related to the Queen who have
carefully kept up their British connections (some tentative enquiries have been made on their behalf).
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