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Those with similar connections with a Dependent
Territory would become "Citizens of the British
Dependent Territories";
Those who did not fall into either of these two
categories would become "British Overseas
Citizens".
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The British Government was impressed with the
argument made strongly by the Hong Kong Government and by oly
other dependencies that positive recognition of the status of the
remaining dependencies should be given in citizenship terms.
The spokesman stressed that the White Paper emphasized
the establishment of a separate citizenship for the British
Dependent Territories would in no way alter the relationship ogs
between those territories and the United Kingdom, nor the British
Government's obligations and commitments to the Dependent
Territories and to their citizens".""
The White Paper proposes identical provisions for p
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the acquisition of citizenship for British Citizenship and Citizenship
of the Dependent Territories. In other words, all the principles
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of nationality that are applied in the United Kingdom will be applied.
appropriate, to the Dependent Territories.
The spokesman said that Citizens of the United Kingdom!
and Colonies from Hong Kong who had settled in the United
Kingdom and who had acquired the right of abode there would
become British Citizens under the proposed new legislation.
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