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Thank you for your advice this morning. I spoke informally at the Home Office on the lines agreed. Their latest news is that the Bill will not go to committee until some time in January. is fortunate. By that time the 400 or so Falkland Islanders concerned will already have become BDTCs.

2. The Home Office welcomed the suggestion that in these circumstances the best way to achieve the purposes of Baroness Vickers' Bill would be to amend it to confer British citizenship on all persons who had on 1 January 1983 become BDTCs by reason of their connection with the Falkland Islands. If this were done it would also be necessary to provide that children born to British citizens in the Falkland Islands would be British citizens otherwise than by descent. There might not need to be many further consequential amendments to the Act.

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If you agree let us wait to see what redraft on these lines the Home Office propose.

3 December 1982

Christophen Hocalls

C J Howells

Nationality & Treaty Dept

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Mr Millson, FID

Mr, Culver, SED

Mr Hill, Legal Advisers HKGD

Mr Brown, Home Office

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