TNAG-1087-FCO40-1337-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1982 — Page 12

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the United Kingdom

Thank you for your letter of 13th October."

We do not contest the technical correctness of your paragraphs

3 and 4. However, the fact remains that some Hong Kong CUKCs have an entitlement to re-admission to the UK by virtue of having been at one time exempt from UK immigration control. They are not, as the Home Office appear to have suggested in the second half of your paragraph 5, receiving de novo an entitlement which other Dependent Territory citizens will not receive. As you will no doubt appreciate, any move which would have the effect of withdrawing this existing entitlement from its holders will be bound to cause difficulties here.

3. At present, as far as we are aware, Hong Kong CUKCs who hold UK passports issued in the British Isles with the re-admission endorsement almost always go to the UK to have their passports renewed there and have had no difficulty in obtaining new UK passports with the re-admission endorsement. However, with the demise of the composite CUKC, it seemed to us that this might no longer be possible once the new Nationality Act comes into force. The combined effect of this and the Home Office ruling that the re-admission endorsement may not be transferred from Hong Kong to UK passports appears to be that people will lose their entitlement to re-admission once their current passports expire.

227 A) part f D

4.

However, since I wrote on 21st April, the definition of "United Kingdom passport" in paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 of the Nationality Bill has been amended to include passports issued by Dependent Territory governments. Although this was a minor technical amendment (see