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The admission of the expectant mother to Singapore in practice involves intervention and documentation both from the British High Commission in Singapore and directly or indirectly the British High Commission or Embassy in the neighbouring country of residence.
The practical difficulty in all cases is that (and I understand it also applies widely in other parts of the world such as Africa, but my own evidence is from the Far East) much of the documentation both as regards the parental citizenship required for entry and for the formal recognition of the child for passport endorsement purposes has to come back to the U.K. to the Home Office for formal endorsement. Now it will be no secret to anyone who has had to deal with the
the Home Office and particularly its Nationality Department that correspondence in the best of circumstances travels slowly and in normal circumstances travels extremely slowly and is not susceptible to efficient acceleration. In the case of correspondence proceeding from overseas and returning there the process becomes yet slower, yet more inefficient and yet more unreliable. It is a matter of record that consular officials in U.K. posts overseas are no more able to induce the Home Office to handle this work expeditiously than is the individual citizen or indeed the Member of Parliament. Yet the
Home Office, in fact, has no judicial or evaluatory function in this process in these cases. It relies wholly and exclusively on the information collected and delivered to it by the U.K. post overseas, that is to say it rubber stamps in its own good time the documenation supplied to it.
As the Nationality Bill confers in the ordinary way power on the "Secretary of State" is there any good reason why such powers could not be exercised by an official of the Diplomatic Service in a post overseas under the authority of
under the authority of the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs thus allowing the transaction to be completed promptly and on the spot rather than by the far more subordinate official in the Home Office in Croydon under the authority of the Home Secretary but with no first hand access to any of the data?
I do appreciate, as we all do, that this is an "interdepartmental" question but it does appear to me to be a practical step which would in its own small area increase by a factor perhaps 95% the efficiency of Government and which, if brought into effect at the same time as the commencement order of the Nationality Bill, would provide admirable positive propaganda amongst those whose interests concern my friends and myself most closely.
As the Bill is still not in its final form at the time of writing I will not seek to 'key' this suggestion into a particular clause, but I should be able to do so, based on earlier texts, as soon it is enacted.
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