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SUBJECT: NATIONALITY LEGISLATION: TRANSMISSION OF CITIZEN- SHIP OF CHILDREN BORN OVERSEAS

PROBLEM

1. As at present envisaged by the Home Office the new nationality law would allow transmission of citizenship only to the first generation of British citizens born over- seas (though with a provision for entitlement to citizen- ship for the second generation if they take up residence in the UK with their parents for 3 years during the child's minority). This would present some problems for h British citizens overseas. What additional provision

should we seek for them?

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2. The FCO should not oppose the Home Office proposal that British families settled overseas should not be able to transmit their citizenship beyond the first generation but should press for provision for the children of the second generation of expatriate UK businessmen, members of UK parastatal organisations and possibly members of national and international organisations as well as UK Crown

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Various Departments concur.

ARGUMENT AND BACKGROUND

3. The 1977 Green Paper on nationality advocated trans- mission of citizenship to only the first generation over-

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