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DSR 11 (Revised)

CONFIDENTIAL

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

BB Low

DEPARTMENT:

TEL. NO:

MVD

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Seeret-

ArJ H Ramsay Esq

-Secret

British Embassy

Confidential

Restricted-

MEXICO CITY

-Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

SUBJECT:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

GVV MEX 345/1

Your Reference

Copies to:

MCAD

HKD

WIAD

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CAVEAT....

MEXICO: VISA REQUIREMENTS ON BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORY

CITIZENS (BDTC)

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exercise, to correct the

1. Since Migration and Visa Department are responsible

for visa abolition arrangements either by formal agreement

general or informal understanding we are coordinating the response

to the Mexican imposition of a visa requirement on BDTCS

the complaints we have received from the Government-of

(our Tela 101) FRO

sfare e

Hong Kong a

Jare accurate the Mexican policy (at least as

judged by the actions of their Consulate-General in New

York) has been applied in a clumsy manner.

Rexicans' misconcepton's abow trong kang BDTZ'S,

Enclosures-flag(s).......

2.

The current (1959) bilateral visa abolition agreement

(VAA) with Mexico, which came into effect on 1 January 1960

is of a variety which did not include the Dependent

Territories (DT) although it was extended to the then

British Honduras on 1 March 1963. Copies of both VAAs are

enclosed for ease of reference. Whatever the reasons were

for excluding the DT then it is now our policy, so far as

is possible, that all holders of British passports benefit

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