IONALITY
International
response SO far on
British National
(Overseas)
status has
has been encouraging.
Confident
new
status will receive widespread acceptance.
Ethnic minority BDTCs wish to continue
Hong Kong with secure nationality status.
to live in
Provisions of
Joint Declaration and Order in Council of 5 June 1986
enable them to do this.
[Statelessness?]
Order in Council provides that all Hong Kong British
Dependent Territories Citizens will automatically become
British Overseas Citizens in 1997 if they have not opted
status and would
for British National
(Overseas)
otherwise be stateless. So will their children.
Their
grandchildren will also be able to register as British
Overseas Citizens if they would otherwise be stateless.