TNAG-1192-FCO40-1494-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1982 — Page 61

Your question in relation to the answer to 173W

refers to the husbands/male fiancé, provisions of

the proposed amendments to the Immigration Rules.

Perhaps I could first take the figure of 3,000

which you cite. Tim Raison has made it clear

that 2,500 3,000 possible additional applications

resulting from the change in the Rules could be made

in the Indian sub-continent. You may care to look

at the evidence given by Tim Raison to the Sub- Committee on Race Relations and Immigration on 25

October about the basis for this estimate. There has

never been, even before the 1980 change in the Rules,

a significant number of applications from women of

Hong Kong origin in the UK to bring in husbands or

fiancés. We have no reason to think that the pro-

posed change in the Rules, when and if implemented,

will alter the situation. It will of course only

benefit those women who under the Nationality Act

will be British citizens.