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Nationality
principle Chinese rather than British nationality that
they should acquire. On a reading of the Chinese
Law it was not certain that such people
would be able to acquire Chinese nationality
automatically. The FCO had therefore proposed that it
might be helpful to approach the Chinese to ask them if
to the effect
that they would grant nationality almost automatically
to non-Chinese former Hong Kong BDTCs who applied for it
We didn't. they would be willing to make a statement
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and to their children born in the Hong Kong SAR.
2.
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thought that the suggestion that
the children of BOCS would not be entitled automatically
to the same status would attract adverse comment. The
Council had been given to understand that it was not HMG
which was refusing transmissibility but the Chinese. He
did not see why HMG was now refusing this to a very
He did not see any difficulty in making
since those concerned would have по
small minority.
this
concession
right of abode in the United Kingdom.
3.
The Deputy Secretary (General Duties) said that
the Home Office's argument was that the whole concept of
the BNA hinged on the depth of connection with the
United Kingdom or with British dependent territory.
Even British Citizens who settled abroad might find that
had been cut from the third
UK had
their link
link with the
the UK
generation onwards.
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