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GIBRALTAR: OFFER OF RESIDENCY PERMITS TO HONG KONG
INVESTORS
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A 1. Your manuscript minute on FCO telno 1734 asked how the
Gibraltar Government would grant "right of residency" in Gibraltar alone, bearing in mind the right of abode in the UK enjoyed by the Gibraltar BDTCS.
2. Gibraltar BDTCs are treated as nationals of the United
Kingdom for the purposes of the European Community Treaties (because of the geographical location of Gibraltar) and as
such they are entitled to be registered as British citizens
under section 5 of the BNA 1981. As British citizens they
would have the right of abode in the UK. Falkland Islanders
are in a similarly elite category (among BDTCs) in that
those who did not already have UK citizenship were granted
it under the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983. They too then enjoy right of abode in the UK, by virtue of UK citizenship.
3.
The "right of residence" that Gibraltar plans to give to
Hong Kong investors needs to be distinguished from the
rights enjoyed by virtue of nationality.
What it seems they
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