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Thank you.
FROM:
R M Marsden
Hong Kong Department
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DATE:
13 August 1990
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CC:
PS/Lord Caithness Caithness
Mr Burns
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MICD 340/8.
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2 1 AUG 1990
INDEX
MPS' LETTERS: HONG KONG NATIONALITY: SPOUSES OF BRITISH
CITIZENS IN HONG KONG
Problem
A B 1. Two MPs' letters from Sir Nicholas Bonsor and
Mr Douglas French enclosing almost identical letters from Mr David Buckley seeking additional assurances for the spouses of British citizens about their right of entry to
the UK.
Recommendation
2. I submit a draft reply from Lord Caithness. The Home
office agree.
Background
3
British expatriates in Hong Kong with non-British spouses have been lobbying hard for their spouses to be given full British citizenship in line with the spouses of beneficiaries under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act. They claim that without full citizenship, many expatriates will leave Hong Kong in order to secure the position of their spouses in the UK. This is a matter of particular
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