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REGISTRY Action Taken:
Private Secretary
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Hong Kong Department
11 January 1990
PS/Mr Maude
Mr McLaren
Mr Burns, News Dept
VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE TO HONG KONG:
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LINE TO TAKE ON
NON-BRITISH SPOUSES OF BRITISH EXPATRIATES IN HONG KONG AND WIDOWS
OF HONG KONG EX-SERVICEMEN
Problem
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To clear with the Home Secretary a line on:
assurances on non-British spouses of British expatriates in
Hong Kong.
(b)
widows of Hong Kong ex-servicemen.
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State should write to the Home
Secretary explaining that, should he be asked about these matters
during his visit, he would need to make clear what the Government
had decided to do for these categories. I submit a draft.
Background
3.
The essential background is contained in the draft letter. Mr Waddington decided before Christmas, at the same time as the nationality package was finalised, that non-British spouses of British expatriates could not be given British citizenship; but that in order to meet their concerns, he could offer them a reassurance that the widows of British expatriates resident in Hong Kong would be admitted to Britain on the same terms as the spouses of people
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