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Mr. Stephenson.
UNCLASSIFIED
Mr Evans, MVD, CL421
Reference........GNN 340/393/2
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HONG KONG CERTIFICATES OF IDENTITY
1.
Please see the attached letter and enclosures sent by m the Consul-General in Paris to the Director of Immigration in Hong Kong and copied to NTCD. I am transferring the letter to you as you seem to be the person in MVD most likely to deal with Stateless Persons Travel Documents (SPTD) and in particular one from a Dependent Territory.
2.
Having dealt with a number of enquiries about SPTDs and because I am familiar with Hong Kong documents I am a little surprised at the CG's proposed course of action. Hong Kong is unique for sheer numbers of stateless persons and has potentially two million plus Certificates of Identity holders. Perhaps for this reason there is no mention of either the 1951 or the 1954 UN Conventions on the status of stateless persons on the documents. Almost without exception they are refugees from the Peoples' Republic of China, and many, as Miss Woo in Immigration Department says, have no more than a tenuous link with the Territory. They have only been documented by the Hong Kong authorities as an administrative convenience to allow them to travel. It hardly makes sense for a person, who may only have passed through Hong Kong and who has lived in France for 40 years, to expect to be documented indefinitely by Hong Kong. The Home Office would not continue to document persons who are long-term residents overseas and since we represent Hong Kong on travel document matters overseas should we not handle their affairs as we would our own?
3.
It seems most unlikely that these persons will return to Hong Kong after 1997 and presumably the Chinese will refuse to document them whilst they remain overseas. Effectively they are, or certainly will be, permanent residents outside Hong Kong and will become a French problem. The best course of action would be for them to naturalise as French and acquire French passports. Perhaps by removing their C of Is as Hong Kong requests we will help them to achieve this.
5 February 1991
NT2ACR
CC:
CODE 18-77
Hong Kong Department
Barr
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Nationality, Treaty & Claims Dept CL508 270 4078
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