TNAG-0902-FCO40-1112-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-British-nationality-1979 — Page 83

The People Concerned

7.

The people on whose behalf concern has been expressed are as follows: (a) people born in the United Kingdom who either settle overseas

or are temporarily overseas when their children are born. There

is no problem here, since if either the father or the mother is

a British Citizen by birth, so will the children be;

(b)

people who are themselves citizens by descent, having been

born overseas, who in their turn have children born overseas.

Those who are living in foreign countries will no longer have the

entitlement to obtain citizenship for their children by consular

registration, but they will benefit from the concession mentioned

in paragraph 6(e) above if they resettle in the United Kingdom;

(c) people who are citizens by descent of the second or later

generations who have preserved their citizenship under the present

law by consular registration of births, or because one father in

the chain of descent has been in Crown Service. Under present

proposals people who have up to now had the benefit of consular

registration would no longer be able to pass on citizenship to

their children.

Advantages Already Proposed

8. Many of the people mentioned in paragraph 7 above will in fact benefit from

the general provisions mentioned in paragraph 6 i.e.

(a) because citizenship will descend to the first generation of

children born abroad if the mother was born in the United Kingdom.

This must affect many families;

4.