Immigration and Nationality Department
Lunar House 40 Wellesley Road Croydon CR9 2BY
Telephone 081-760
(GTN 3822)
N J Paget Esq,
ISD(S)
Room W5,
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
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Dear Mr Paget,
HOME OFFICE NATIONALITY TEAM (HONG KONG)
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Date
26 February 1991.
We spoke earlier today about the team of officials which is to be based in Hong Kong to register as British citizens 50,000 key Hong Kong personnel, together with their families, recommended to the Secretary of State by the Governor.
The team, which will comprise 6 staff, will operate from the Hong Kong Immigration Department headquarters in Wan Chai. The first phase of the registration exercise will be completed within two years; a second, smaller, phase will be executed nearer to 1997. However, because the team will also supervise the issue of British citizen passports in Hong Kong, there will be a continuing Home Office presence in the territory from 8 April 1991 until a few months short of June 1997.
As I explained, there will be a need to send a certain amount of classified material to and from Hong Kong. The main outgoing requirement will be to send in late March/early April a number of Home Office files and records which the team will need in Hong Kong. I cannot at this stage give any idea of the number of files or their weight.
The incoming requirement will be a regular despatch from Hong Kong of items such as floppy disks containing information on those registered as British citizens, reports to the Home Office etc. On present plans, the disks will be sent weekly to our Nationality Office in Liverpool. As you explained, all material sent by bag from Hong Kong to the FCO will have to be forwarded to Home Office outstations by IDS following delivery by FCO to Queen Anne's Gate.
We agreed that material should, for security reasons, be sent
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