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Proposed Criteria for Accepting Late Applications for BN(0) Registration under Article 4(4) of the Hong Kong British Nationality) Order 1986
General
a Late application. a special
For consideration of accepting circumstance may be
taken as one which provides a good reason for the applicant's failure 11 applying in time. The applicant should furnish documentary evidence to support the reason given.
2.
Special Circumstances
The following special circumstances in respect of late applicants are normally considered as acceptable reasons justifying acceptance of their applications :
(a)
overseas travels on or immediately before their respective cut-off dates:
(b) hospitalisation or medical or health problems encountered on or
immediately before their respective cut-off dates;
(c)
(d)
(e)
imprisonment or detention on their respective cut-off dates:
their not
being able to establish their claim to the HKBDTC status on or before their cut-off dates:
geographical/communication problems as 2 result of their being resident in remote areas/countries without HMG representatives;
(I) full-time students studying overseas;
(g)
the failure of parents/guardians to submit applications on their children's behalf on
before the children's respective cut-off
dates due to reasons stated above; and
(h) their being abandoned children without parents/guardians to submit
applications on their behalf.
3.
Orher Consideration
4.
Other special circumstances put forward by applicants will be considered on their individual merits. In case of doubt, overseas British posts should refer the
the applications to Hong Kong Immigration Department for
consideration.
DSP Promulgation
The
rriteria as mentioned
in
paragraph 2 will be incorporated into Diplomatic Service Procedures so as to provide guidelines for staff of overseas British posts in handling applications from overseas HKBDTCS.
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