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At the Consular Conference in Dusseldorf last month there was some discussion about the type of passport to be issued to Citizens of the British Dependent Territories if the proposals in the British Nationality Bill are enacted. It was generally agreed that it would be desirable for this passport to be X easily distinguishable from the passport issued to British
Citizens or to British Overseas Citizens. It was also agreed that since in the Netherlands we have the largest numbers of Hong Kong Citizens that I should write to you to express the hope that thought should be given to this question in making plans for the implementation of the Bill. I presume that in practice most of the Dependent Territories will wish to have their own separate passports.
2. It was also agreed that I should enquire whether it would not be possible for those posts like Amsterdam who issue a large number of passports to Hong Kong Chinese, to be supplied with a stock of Hong Kong passports for this purpose. The numbers here are very great during the first half of January 41 of all the passports we issued were to Hong Kong Chinese. At this rate we may issue 1800-2000 such passports this year. There would seem to be no real objection to our issuing passports in the name of the Governor of Hong Kong instead of that of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs. The only change we should have to make in the passport would be the deletion of 'Hong Kong' as the place of issue on passports. This would be a much smaller deletion than that of 'Holder has the right of abode in the United Kingdom' which we have to make on page 5 of (almost) every passport we issue to a Kong Kong Chinese and one which if by mistake it were omitted would have less serious consequences.
Do you think this might be agreed please ?
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