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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH

L M Davies Esq CMG OBE Secretary for Security Government Secretariat HONG KONG

Telephone 01-233 3184

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Your reference (59) in CR 16/2091/79

Our reference HKK 340/1

Date

10 March 1982

HAK 340||

Dear Bim,

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ENTITLEMENT TO READMISSION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

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I am sorry it has taken so long to reply to your letter HKK 34d1 of 10 December 1981. HKK3401

of 10 December 1981. I am afraid that, even now, this can only (34) be an interim reply.

1981

2. We put forward your arguments but this is not an easy issue for the Home Office to resolve. Understandably, they wish to be certain of the implications of any decision that is made on it. Their main concern is that any decision to accommodate those who once had a passport issued in the United Kingdom without endorsement could include another category. This is those who came here between 1962 and 1965 on Colonial passports, obtained UK passports and could claim that they were admitted for settlement. They have told us that paragraph 5 of the Immigration Rules which deals with admission to the UK will have to be revised in the light of the British Nationality Act. They are fully seized of your arguments and have promised to keep us in touch with their thinking on the form of provision to replace the paragraph.

3. I shall keep you informed of developments. But this is a very complicated subject and one which you or your staff could usefully discuss with the Home Office at the next opportunity, for instance when one of you is in London.

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Yous

Dich

R D Clift

Hong Kong and General Department

C J Howells Esq Nationality & Treaty Department FCO DW Partridge Esq Migration & Visa Department FCO Sir Jack Cater KBE, Hong Kong Government Office LONDON

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