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YOU ALSO SUGGEST A SEPARATE ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SARG FOR
RETURNING SUCH TRAVELLERS TO HONG KONG. BUT WE HAVE ALREADY REACHED AGREEMENT WITH THE CHINESE (JOINT DECLARATION ETC) THAT
THERE BN(0) PASSPORT HOLDERS WILL HAVE RETURNABILITY TO THE SAR. THEREFORE SEEMS NO NEED FOR AN ADDITIONAL UK AGREEMENT WITH THE SARG. WE ARE NOT SURE WHETHER YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE CONCEPT OF RETURNABILITY OR TO REPATRIATION AND DEPORTATION? CANADIANS' MAIN CONCERN RELATES TO THE FIRST OF THESE (AND IS REFLECTED IN THEIR IMMIGRATION RULES). AN ADDITIONAL UK-SARG AGREEMENT WOULD BE SUPERFLUOUS IN RELATION TO THIS CONCERN. REPATRIATION AND DEPORTATION ARE SEPARATE ISSUES (NOT CONFINED TO CANADA) WHICH WE SHALL ADDRESS IN DUE COURSE BUT THEY STILL WILL HAVE NO BEARING ON A BN(0) PASSPORT HOLDER'S RETURNABILITY TO THE HKSAR (PROVIDED OF COURSE THAT HE IS NOT ONE OF THE VERY SMALL NUMBER WHO MAY LOSE RIGHT OF ABODE AFTER 1997: BUT THIS IS ANOTHER PROBLEM WHICH WE SHALL ALSO CONSIDER IN DUE COURSE).
3.
IN VIEW OF LUKIE'S DISCUSSION IN HONG KONG WE SHOULD BE
GRATEFUL IF OTTAWA COULD TELEGRAPH ANY INITIAL REACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES TO THE BN(G) EXERCISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND ALSO LET US KNOW OF ANY FOLLOW UP APPROACHES THE CANADIANS
MAY MAKE.
HOWE
OCMIAN 1894
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
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MR BARRINGTON
COPIES TO:
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
LEGAL ADVISERS
MR PLANT,
MR D MCDOUGALL,
MVD
MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MF EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE
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