CONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIAL
FM FCO
TO DESKBY 070100Z HONG KONG
TELNO
OF 031445Z JANUARY 86
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
DE SKBY070100Z
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YOUR TELNO 18: NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL:
BN(O) PAS SPORTS
1.
this.
ENDORSEMENT IN
Ministers have now looked carefully at the arguments on They fully accept the psychological and symbolic advantages of agreeing to the endorsement you have proposed, but can see no way round the difficulty that it would give a misleading impression.
2.
The main problem is that, while an
while an endorsement in a BN(O) passport saying that the holder "does not require an entry certificate or visa to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor" would be true, it would be only part of the truth. The other part is that the holder of a BN(O) passport will remain subject to the immigration rules and, if he does not have an entry certificate, will have to satisfy the immigration officer on entering the UK, that he qualifies for admission. If we added the proposed endorsement, even if we did everything possible to publicise the true situation at the time BN (O) passports were
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