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From:
R M Morris IND
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5 February 1990
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Mr Walters
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RECEIVER MEGISTRY
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GURKHA LEGISLATION
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Action Taken
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1. You asked for advice on the attached minute from the
Secretary of State for Defence in which he suggests that the
Hong Kong Bill should be used to restrict settlement and
citizenship rights for Gurkhas and their families. OD decided
on 9 May 1989 that these changes should be accomplished though
the Armed Forces Bill 1991.
Background
3. The decision to have a post-1997 Gurkha force of some
4,000 which would be primarily based in the UK gave rise last
year to concern about large numbers of them and their families
achieving settlement here and, in the case of children born in
the UK, British citizenship, In order to reduce these possibilities to a minimum OD agreed, inter alia,
Lof a May 989.
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i. to amend the Immigration Rules so that
members of the Home Forces (which includes Gurkhas)
were no longer deemed to be settled in the UK for the
purpose of the Rules. This would prevent Gurkhas from being joined for settlement by spouses, fiancees and
dependent children;
ii. to amend the BNA 1981 so that children born here to
Gurkhas ( (who as members of the Home Forces are exempt
from immigration control and thus deemed to be settled
here for the purposes of Section 50(2) of the BNA) were
not British citizens by birth in the UK; and
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FEB 1990