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Agenda Item 3
Progress of the British Nationality Scheme (Paper No. SC 114/92)
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Members noted the latest position regarding the implementation of the British Nationality Scheme as at the end of November 1992.
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Mr Kwok reported that the Immigration Department was running slightly ahead of the schedule in interviewing applicants. About 80% of the potentially successful applicants had been interviewed, which exceeded the original target of interviewing 75% of them by the end of the year. It was expected that the interviewing process would be completed before April 1993. About 45% of the potentially successful applicants had been registered. It was quite certain that the target of registering 20,000 principal applicants (or about 50% of the potentially successful applicants) by the end of the year would be met.
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Members further noted that there were some 2,000 applications which were withdrawn, invalid or where the applicants were ineligible to apply. The majority of these applications were technical withdrawals after the applicants had been registered as secondary beneficiaries in their spouses' applications. Only about 200 applications (or 0.3% of the total number of applications) were withdrawn for other unknown reasons.
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