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OUTLINE OF MAIN QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS OF ENTRY INTO BRITAIN FROM DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
Falkland Islands and Dependencies
From the start of the crisis there was considerable
Parliamentary pressure to grant rights of entry to some
400 Falkland Islanders who did not then have them. On
8 April the Home Secretary made it clear that in the
circumstances there would not be any difficulties for those
Falkland Islanders to be admitted to the UK. About
1,400 other Falkland Islanders already had rights of entry,
being entitled to British citizenship. There has been
further pressure recently to grant full British citizenship
to those (400) who are not already entitled to it. This
has not been conceded.
Gibraltar
Because of EC considerations, the Gibraltarians,
numbering about 20,000, are in a special position as
regards entry into the UK. Under an Executive Order they
all.have rights of entry.
Hong Kong
The current lease of the New Territories runs out in
-P
ead the question of the future still needs
i 1997, and as there is no agreement on what will happen
to be resolved. The people of
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Lewe be taken,
in those territories after that, eitizéns of Hong Kong are
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