DSR 11C
Australian and New. Zealand
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We think that the Governments concerned would probably attach more importance to the Working Holidaymaker Rule. The text of this rule, with the proposed amendments to it underlined, is in my immediately following telegram. You will see that the Rule remains intact except for a few limitations which have been written into it to take account of some situations which have arisen from time to time, There is no objection to your informing the Government of this provided that this is strictly Confidential.
7.
Other rules which may be important to you are as
follows:
(a) no change for normal visitors except that a "no
employment during the visit" endorsement will be normal,
no "switching" of entry category from visitor to
(b)
(c)
(a)
to ang permitting work, opening a business or independent means categories whilst in the UK,
no male fiancés admitted for marriage,
no specific entitlement for husbands to join women settled in the UK, but they would normally be admissible unless the marriage was an"arranged" one (eg as is customary in India) or a marriage of convenience.
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These proposed changes are strictly for your own information at present, though you may mention (a) on a Confidential basis if you think it would help to elicit their reaction to the UK grandparent rule.
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I might add that if the grandparent rule were cancelled any changes to the Rules affecting husbands/male fiancés would not include the facility which existed between 1973 and 1974 for male Commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the UK to be admitted for marriage to or as a husband of a woman settled here.
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We should also be grateful fo ryour latest assessment on the likely reaction of public opinion locally.
10. Ministers have said publicly that they will be making the immigration changes in the autumn. The procedure is that the changes come into forse immediately they are made, but
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