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on the non British spouses of British citizens will now
take care of the wives of ex-servicemen, but not widows.
4.
These points are likely to come up during my visit.
I am meeting representatives of Conservatives abroad and of the Concerned British Expatriates Association, who
have been lobbying hard about the non British spouses
issue. I am also meeting OMELCO, who raised the question
of the widows of Hong Kong ex-servicemen with
Simon Glenarthur in January 1989. We still owe them a
reply.
5. I do not think I can take a line that we are still
considering the position and that an announcement will be
made in due course. If asked, therefore, I would like to
say that:
the Government is prepared to offer an assurance that
a widow or widower of a British citizen who is still
resident in Hong Kong, who has not remarried, and who
does not have any other country's citizenship, will be admitted to the UK with his or her dependent children at any time on the same terms as spouses of people settled
here;
we propose to extend to the widows of ex-servicemen
the same concession as that offered to the non British
spouses of British expatriates.
6.
Is this acceptable to you?
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 12 January 1990
DH.
(DOUGLAS HURD)
Amarkanta A Melancharda SAMMANánar Zakaria
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