CONFIDENTIAL
Paragraph 5 of the draft minute to the Home Secretary:
following after the penultimate sentence:
Add the
"One result would be that British Nationals without EC rights
could fall foul of immigration authorities in third countries.
We need to guard against this, particularly in respect of Hong
Kong BDTC's who will be eligible to
to take out passports
in
new
the
status of British National (Overseas) following the
Sino-British Agreement on Hong Kong's future and the related
memoranda. We are committed to doing all that we can to ensure
that BN(0) passports, when issued (probably in 1987), will be
readily accepted in third countries".
Final sentence of paragraph 5 of the draft minute to the Home
Secretary:
It seems to us that the absence of
We suggest deleting 5(b).
European Community markings on the cover of CFP look-alikes would be
sufficient to show that their holders
do not have EC rights.
Moreover,
in the case of Hong Kong, we wish to avoid
when
issued,
attractive as
as
terms
a ny type of
negative endorsement which might jeopardise our aim of making BN(0)
passports,
in possible
of
format. I understand that the kind of endorsement suggested in para
5(b) of the draft minute would not necessarily include a reference
to the fact that the holder of
CFP look-alike did not have the
a
right of abode in the UK. Nevertheless, such an endorsement could
itself be said to be negative and as such I
in
Kong to resist it strongly.
would expect Hong
8 May 1985
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A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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