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beneficiaries and their dependents, but also any children born after the award of citizenship as well as children who might
later marry and bring their spouses to the United Kingdom.
3.
Ministers have from time to time been asked why a
particular individual has been unsuccessful in applying under the British Nationality Scheme. You may like to note
paragraph 16 on unsuccessful applications. Only 60 from a
total of 24,680 unsuccessful applicants have requested reconsideration of their applications. All were reviewed. Only in one case was a decision to reject the application overturned (there had been an error in the processing of
data).
4.
Last year's Report established a framework; this year's
is less detailed and shorter. For instance there is no
separate paragraph on "successful applicants scoring points
for service with British undertakings". In case we are asked
about this area when the Report is published, you will recall
that we have been tracking this in the context of assessing
the success rate of Hong Kong employees of British firms applying under the Scheme. We submitted on 12 February, saying that the British link points were working as they were intended to: to give key personnel in British undertakings a significant advantage over equally qualified applicants from
non-British firms.
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Deborah Barnes Jones
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British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
ANNUAL REPORT ON THE BRITISH NATIONALITY SCHEME (7 NOVEMBER 1991 - 6 NOVEMBER 1992)
This report is submitted pursuant to section 4 of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990. All the provisions of the Act, except section 2(2) which relates to the loss of British Dependent Territories citizenship, came into force on 7 November 1990. This report covers the second year since the coming into force of the Act on 7 November 1990. It deals with the following subjects:
Paragraphs
(I)
Background
2-3
(II)
Applications received
4-5
(III)
Steering Committee
6-7
(IV)
Processing of applications
8
(V)
Successful applications
9-13
(VI)
Interviews
14
(VII) Borderline applications
15
(VIII) Unsuccessful applications
16
(IX)
Applications which are withdrawn,
17
invalid or where applicants are ineligible
(X)
Safeguards
18
(XI)
Impact and the way forward
19
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Annex 1
Background
2. Under section 1(1) of the Act, you shall register as British citizens 50,000 principal beneficiaries recommended by me under a scheme made and approved in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act. The scheme I submitted to you in October 1990 is set out in the Schedule to the British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990 which was made by the Privy Council on 20 November 1990 and came into force on 1 December 1990. It consists of four classes : the general occupational class, the disciplined services class, the sensitive service class and the entrepreneurs class. A list of the relevant legislation and related legal instruments is at Annex 1.
Section 2(2) of the Act has not been brought into effect as it is related to the question of right of abode which is the subject of local legislation yet to be enacted.
3.
Applications received
4.
All applicants, unless invited to apply, were required under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Recommendations for Citizenship) Regulations 1990 to submit their applications within the three-month
three-month period from 1 December 1990 to 28 February 1991. Applications under the sensitive service class and the entrepreneurs class were normally made in response to invitations, and invitees were requested to submit their applications within the period specified in the invitations.
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