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CONFIDENTIAL

Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, SW1A 2AH

P J Williamson Esq

Deputy Secretary for Security

Security Branch

Government Secretariat

HONG KONG

Telephone 01-

233 4439

Your reference

Our reference

Date

8 November 1982

HIK 340/1

RALLIKOR A

RY

206

BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981

1.

173

INDEX

Bim Davies wrote to me on 17 October about discretionary registrations under Section 16(3) of the BNA. You should by now have received a teleletter from Nationality and Treaty Department, in response to his earlier teleletters of 6-113 September and 18 October, which covers the main points of substance.

2.

I can only agree with the point in paragraph 3 of Bim's letter. We understand that, as the delay in the Home Office response (both to Mr Chui and NTD) suggests, they are suffering from a severe shortage of manpower. I can only hope that the situation improves once the instructions for handling applications have been agreed and issued. Please let me know if you come across any other similar cases.

cc: T Rooney Esq, NTD

RJ F Hoare

Hong Kong and General Department

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