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IMMIGRATION RULES

At the meeting on 14 June H Committee approved the proposals in my memorandum H(82) 28 for changes in the Immigration Rules to be incorporated in new Rules when the

British Nationality Act is brought, into force on 1 January 1983. I now attach a draft of the White Paper foreshadowed in that memorandum. Part I summarises the changes being

made and Part II gives the full text of the new Rules, changes from the wording of the present Rules being underlined

The Annex to this letter gives some comments on the

changes described in Part I of the White Paper.

I hope the

controversy will be largely confined to the main change approved by H Committee on the admission of the husband or

fiance of a British citizen, but the changes regarding nationals of European Community countries though not altering

our present practice/may provide a focal point for expression

of anti-Community feeling.

As to timing, we have as H Committee asked consulted the Lord Privy Seal, who is content with the proposal to publish the White Paper shortly after the Party Conference, in the

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