TNAG-1386-FCO40-1834-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-citizenship-1985 — Page 144

CONFIDENTIAL

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FM IMMIG HONG KONG

TO TELELETTER FCO

TELELETTER IMM/CR 2926

OF 210815Z NOVEMBER 85

FROM:

CNN 340/15-B

STEPHEN KUO, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT HONG KONG

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NATIONALITY AND TREATY DEPARTMENT ECO

FOLLOWING FOR: MISS VEALE

BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZEN

IN DISCUSSION WITH THE PROG, THE QUESTION OF ROCS HAS COME UP

PY WAY OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION, OUR DEPARTMENT HAS PPEPAPER THE

FOLLOWING:-

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THERE IS WIDESPREAD MISCONCEPTION THAT MOST POCS APE LIVING

IN FAST AFRICA WAITING FOR YEARS FOR THEIR SPECIAL VOUCHERS FOR

THE UK. THE PEASON FOP THIS MISCONCEPTION IS THAT TWO YEARS DEFOOR

MENYA EFCAME INDEPENDENT, IT INTRODUCED AN AFRICIANISATION POLICY

AND, WITH IT, SEVERE PESTRICTIONS ON TRADING ACTIVITIES OF

M-KENYAN NATIONALS. MOST ASIAN RESIDENTS IN KENYA PEMAINED

CUKCS WHEN KENYA BECAME INDEPENDENT. THEY WERE THEREFORE DEPRIVES

OF THE IP MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD AND THIS LED TO A TOTAL OF 12

CUKCS FROM KENYA OF ASIAN OPIGIN EMIGRATING TO THE UK BETWEEN

1963 AND 1960. IN ORDER TO LIMIT THIS HUGE FLOW OF IMMIGRANTS

THE UK INTRODUCED THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS ACT 1968 WHICH PESTRICTED THE ENTRY OF SUCH CURCE TO 1,000 A YEAR. MURS THIS COISED WAS OVER, THE QUOTA WAS INCREASES TO 5,000 / YEAR. THE COATHALLY, THE DISSEMINATION AGAINST ASIANS IN KENYA WAS NO CANCER VIGOROUSLY PURSUED AND BETWEEN 1976 AND 1001, UK NATION LS OF ASIAN ORIGIN FROM KENYA USED LESS THAN A THIRD OF THE VOUCHERS

AVAILABLE TO THEM. THE SUDDEN INTRODUCTION OF THE 1969 ACT- ATTRACTED A GREAT PEAL OF PUPLICITY HOPLDWIDE, AS DIR 7 1272

PRESIDENT AMIN'S EXPULSION EN MASSE FROM UGANDA OF 29,000 U NATIONALS OF ASIAN ORIGIN. PUT THE NUMBER OF ROCS LEFT IN UGANT!

IS IN FACT QUITE SMALL SINCE THOSE EXPELLED FROM UGANDA WERE

ADSORBED PARTYLY BY THE UK AND PARTLY BY INDIA.

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THE TRUTH IS THAT THE NUMBER OF POCS IN EAST AFPICA IS NOT LIPOE AND MOST WHO ARE THERE ARE HAPPILY SETTLED.

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