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SEEKING EXEMPTION FROM NORMAL IMMIGRATION RULES AND CERTAINLY DID NOT EXPECT THAT AN ENDORSEMENT IN THEIR PASSPORT WOULD EXEMPT

WE REALISE THAT THEM FROM NORMAL IMMIGRATION FORMALITIES. UNOFFICIALS UNDERSTAND THE POSITION WELL: THE CONCERN IS HOWEVER TO AVOID ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT LEAD INDIVIDUAL PASSPORT HOLDERS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY NEED NOT PASS THROUGH NORMAL IMMIGRATION FORMALITIES, SINCE THIS WOULD SERVE ONLY TO INCREASE CONFUSION AND RESENTMENT AT PORTS OF ENTRY. BUT YOU SHOULD ASSURE EXCO THAT HMG WILL INDEED CONSIDER CAREFULLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE TWO PRELIMINARY DEBATES WHETHER AN ACCEPTABLE FORMULA CAN BE FOUND WHICH WILL MEET THEIR CONCERNS.

4.

WE THINK THE PASSAGES ON THE MINORITIES AND EX-SERVICEMEN

BUT YOU WILL WISH STRIKE THE SAME NOTE AS THAT IN THE COMMONS.

TO POINT OUT TO EXCO THE SENTENCE:

'BUT OUR MINDS ARE NOT CLOSED AND I SHALL LISTEN

CAREFULLY TO YOUR LORDSHIP'S VIEWS IN THESE MATTERS'.

HOWE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING

MR WILSON

COPIES TO:

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT

MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD

MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE

MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON

MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICI

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS

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Mr Galsworthy

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