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B4 IND LIVERPOOL
Immigration and
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Lunar House 40 Wellesley Road Croydon CR9 2BY
Telephone 081-760 2236
(GTN 3822)
Colin Mulcahy Esq
Migration and Visa Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Clive House
LONDON
SW1
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ABT 13/10.
BN(O) AND BDTC PASSPORTS: ENDORSEMENT OF ENTRY CLEARANCE
We have received an enquiry from the entry clearance officer in Hong Kong following the announcement by the Home Secretary on 29 June that Hong Kong citizens may hold both a BN(0) and BDTC passport prior to the expiry of all BDTC passports on 30 June 1997. (Copy telegrams attached.)
Apparently a large number of calls have been received from persons requesting entry clearances to be endorsed on both BN(O) and BDTC passports. The reason for this is that some people may wish to use one passport to obtain entry to one country and the other passport to gain admission to a different country. The example given to us concerned a person who had a United States visa and an entry clearance for the United Kingdom on one passport who may prefer to use the other passport which does not bear the United States endorsement to visit the Middle East before coming to the United Kingdom and may wish to have another entry clearance placed on that passport for the sake of security or convenience.
Our initial view here is that there should be no need for entry clearances to be placed on both passports. Following the Home Secretary's announcement, it is open to any person to submit either a BN(O) or BDTC passport, but the entry clearance vignette should only be placed in the passport on which the applicant is intending to travel. We can envisage potential for abuse and duplicity if a person is issued with, in effect, two valid entry clearances in two separate passports for the same journey. There would, for example, be nothing to prevent a person using any or both of the two passports for entries to the United Kingdom and should he be refused leave at some point (thereby having one passport signalled), he could then resort to using the second to avoid detection. We find the arguments Hong Kong have put forward unconvincing particularly bearing in mind there is only a mandatory requirement on the part of BNOs/BDTCs to obtain entry clearance when seeking to enter the United Kingdom on a basis leading to settlement.
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