Dear Madam
2
HONG WOME
R2412
118 Waterloo Road Flat 1A Kowloon Hong Kong
19 February 1990
I would be much obliged if you could look into my case regarding
the right of abode in the U.K.
I was born a British Subject in 1934 in Hongkong, belonging to the ethnic small minority group of Indian Community in the Colony. I was brought up learning English at Sir Ellis Kadoorie School and later at Queen's College. On graduating from the Hongkong Technical College (with passes from the City and Guild of London Institute), I joined the China Light and Power Company Limited of which Lord Kadoorie is our present Chairman. I have been working loyally at this British firm for over 34 years now and hold the post of Mechanical Maintenance Engineer at Castle Peak Power Station. I have lived in U.K. for six months during my engineering training in 1960, holding a full British Passport, with the right of abode in U.K. then. During the Japanese invasion of Hongkong, my eldest brother served in the Hongkong Volunteer and was a P.O.W. for nearly four years. My father, who was a chief engineer on a British ship was interned in Canton during the later part of the war. In 1952 when I just graduated from secondary school, I was conscripted as a British subject into The Royal Hongkong Defence Force in which I served part-time for five years before being transferred to the Essential Service Corps.
Thus you can see that our whole family have been brought up the British way and are loyal to the Crown.
But with the coming of 1997, we might be left stateless and without lationality of any kind. I would therefore earnestly request you to give serious consideration to my case.
Hoping to receive a favourable reply soon.
Yours faithfully
Be
(S. M. Bux)