CONFIDENTIAL
-HKD
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
88
20 November 1992
HKD 340/2..
Dear Stephen
London SWIA 2AH
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Hong Kong : Letter from Managing Director of Bonas Machine
Company
Thank you for your letter of 9 November enclosing another from Mr Ian Harris of Bonas Machine Company Limited.
I enclose a draft reply agreed with Home Office officials saying that the Prime Minister is unable to offer special treatment outside the rules to any particular application for British citizenship under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act.
Hong Kong tell us that the two Hong Kong employees on whose behalf Mr Harris wrote applied under the British Nationality Scheme's occupational group of "engineering associate professionals" where competition was very keen. We should not disclose details to Mr Harris (they are confidential under the terms of the scheme). A total of 4,157 people applied for 1,031 places. Under the points system used to assess eligibility both candidates scored rather low marks.
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These scores do not augur well for their chances under the second phase of the selection scheme.
There is no discretion available under the legislation to permit a candidate who failed in the points scheme to be recommended for citizenship except on the grounds that his occupation would make him vulnerable to persecution after 1997. No such grounds apply in this
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