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having been born in Hong Kong, would have the right of abode there, and that on the basis of the passport she held she would be admissible without a visa to, the UK on her way back to Hong Kong provided she met the usual conditions such as having ade- quate funds/ticket for her stay and onward journey. Fortunately, too, these assurances were acceptable over the telephone.
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3. I have found Alan Cambridge's letter of 24 June 1983 to Frank Gahan, and it may be useful for me to mention, too, some other correspondence dating back 2 or 3 years. Correspondence on our 1982 file, starting with Alan Conyard's letter GVV FRAN 3341/1 of 4 January 1982, including the Ministry of External
Relations' Note of 1 February 1982, and concluding with a
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Hong Kong teleletter of 2 February 1983, is relevant, interest- ing, and marginally helpful. It is not evident that you received
The kind of un- a copy of the teleletter, so I enclose one. pleasant difficulty which can arise on account of the compli- cations which have accrued from successive changes since the VAA of 1946, is well illustrated by 1983 correspondence about Mrs Chan Ip Yuk Sim (FCO letter HKK 345/1 of 10 August 1983).- We evidently did not keep on our file a copy of a letter of 10 August 1983 from the French Consul in Hong Kong to the Director of Immigration there; it is mentioned in the enclosed copy of our Note of 29 November 1983 to the MER. A copy of the fiease French Consul's letter might help us to deal successfully
itain with future urgent queries from an immigration officer at an
airport here, and if there is still a copy on the HKK file perhaps you would very kindly obtain one for us.
yours shicerely
Aureli
M Mitchell
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