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born overseas to a UK born father or mother it will cover by far
the majority of UK businessmen, international civil servants et al
working overseas. It will also cater for the British parents by descent who have a child born overseas while on, say, a three year
contract and who then return to the UK. But the British family settled overseas will no longer be able to transmit their citizenship
beyond the first generation.
4. The White Paper mentioned two categories for whom exceptional
treatment could be provided the children of Crown Servants and
the children of a parent employed with a business or certain other
types of organisation based in the UK.
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The children born overseas of Crown Servants will be
regarded as British citizens by birth. Thus they in turn will automatically transmit their citizenship to any of their children born overseas. (The Home
Office also seem sympathetic to the claims of Crown
Servants seconded temporarily to international organisations.
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Home Office officials though their
Ministers may have reservations - also support the application of Crown Servant treatment to the children
of Crown Servants born before the Act comes into force,
an aspect to which the Staff Side have attached much
importance.)
Children of people in the second category will be able
to acquire British citizenship (subject to certain
requirements which would probably not be onerous) when
their parents were not born in the UK, but they will
not be British citizens by birth.
FCO Ministers will be aware (Mr Luce from his discussions in
H Committee and the LPS from, discussions with the Home Secretary) that it was only with reluctance and in the face of pressure from the FCO and the Department of Trade that the Home Secretary was prepared to make any exception to the provision in para 3 above to benefit the child born overseas of a British citizen by descent
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