This will be more difficult for some territories than others, because of the immigration pressures they face. Bermuda is perhaps the most obvious case, where the immigration ordinances have had to be drawn very tightly. But even here, it seems likely that a person could be given the right of abode in Bermuda if he had no other citizenship. Most of the citizens of the British Dependent Territories whom Bermuda might find it difficult to accept,are in fact British citizens as well and will have the right of abode in the United Kingdom. The Cayman Islands too? have found it necessary to draw their immigration ordinances Lightly, but here again we think that a person could be given the right of abode there if he had no other citizenship.
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10. So where dependencies are unable to grant the right of abode to all who hold citizenship of the British Dependent Territories through their links with them, we do not think that this will in practice lead to any serious problems.
So fare and we and queered It is relevant that hitherto there has not been any problem arising te people who held their citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies through a connection
or eliwherd. with the dependencies did not haveythe right of abode there in every eest This strongly suggests that the vast majority of them affected have the right of abode elsewhere (which, as I have indicated, is certainly the case in Bermuda). Any who do not have the right of abode elsewhere should be covered by the new arrangepeats the dependencies will be making. Therefore the fact that citizenship of the British Dependent Territories will not automatically carry with it the right of abode in a particular dependency is not likely to be of great practical importance.
11. I cannot in any case see that separate citizenships would make any difference in this respect. Even if there were separate citizenships for the dependencies places such as Bermuda would not necessarily be prepared to give the right of abode to all those who held their citizenship. They would insist that their immigration ordinances were for them to determine, and the existence of a separate citizenship did not affect this since the terms of the citizenship had been drawn up without their consent and without their agreement.
12. The only way we could ensure that a separate citizenship carried with the right of abode in a particular dependency would be to define it by reference to the Immigration ordinances of the dependency concerned. But this would lead to intolerable confusion. Citizenship would be acquired in different ways and different terms in the dependencies. There would be a much greater risk under this arrangement of a significant number of people who have ties with a dependency failing to acquire the right of abode there and having no other right of abode.
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