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DSR 11C
1997 to acqui re British Overseas Citizenship i f
would otherwise be
stateless.
they
These provisions comply
fully with our obligations under the UN Convention on the
Reduction of Statelessness.
BN(O) status will confer much the same rights as
BDTC status except that it will not be
further generations.
agreement the Chinese
would not accept that
acquire British
transmissible
to
During the negotiations on the
we re
quite categorical that they
any one born after June 1997 could
by virtue of a connection
nationality
with what will then be a Special Administrative Region of
the People's Republic of China.
the
However the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong led by
Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations, and
supported by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative
Council in Hong Kong, have claimed that the status of
British National (Overseas) does not provide them with an
effective citizenship because it does not confer the
right of abode in the territory of the country which
issues it (ie the UK), it cannot be passed on to future
generations, it cannot
Hong Kong and although two generations born after 1 July
1997 will have a form of British nationality,
and
the right of guarantee
subsequent generations will
generations will be stateless.
abode in
the third
They a re
therefore pressing HMG hard for the right to be
registered as British Citizens, which will give them the
right of abode in the UK.