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iv.

certain persons who have been adopted in the United Kingdom by a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.

C. British Subject without Citizenship

d.

e.

British Subjects without Citizenship are persons born before 1 January 1949 who were British subjects by reason of their connection with former British India but did not become citizens

of India or Pakistan when those countries introduced their own

citizenships after independence, usually because they were not living in one of them at the time.

British subjects by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948

These are citizens of the Republic of Ireland, born before 1 January 1949, who were then British subjects and have remained British subjects by making a formal claim under section 2 of the 1948 Act.

British subjects by virtue of section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965

These are women who have been registered as British subjects under the 1965 Act by reason of their marriage to a British subject without citizenship (c. above) or a British subject by virtue of section 2

of the 1948 Act (d. above).

f. British Protected Persons

British Protected Persons are not British subjects/Commonwealth

citizens; nor are they aliens. Most of those remaining are

nationals of Brunei. Some are persons who were connected with

former protectorates or former trust territories but have not become

citizens of those countries.

g.

Aliens

An alien is a person who is not:

i.

a British subject/Commonwealth citizen;

ii.

a British Protected Person; or

iii. a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.

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