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BN(0) PASSPORTS

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WE HAVE BEEN GIVING SOME THOUGHT TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BN(0) PASSPORTS. THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTS OUR PRESENT THINKING, WHICH WE HOPE WILL BE BROADLY ACCEPTABLE TO

YOU.

2.

AS YOU KNOW, FROM 1 JULY 1987 YOU WILL ISSUE BN(0) PASSPORTS UNDER THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY'S PREROGATIVE. THIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL, FOR THE FIRST TIME, BE ISSUING THE STANDARD CONSULAR ISSUE ('C' SERIES) PASSPORT, A MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE AND VALUABLE DOCUMENT FOR THE POTENTIAL ABUSER

THAN THE DEPENDENT TERRITORY PASSPORT.

3.

INITIALLY AS YOU KNOW THE PASSPORTS WILL BE IN THE TRADITIONAL BLUE HARD COVERED FORMAT AS ISSUED BY OUR POSTS TO ALL BRITISH NATIONALS. EVENTUALLY IN 1988, HOWEVER, WE SHALL

START ISSUING THE COMMON EC FORMAT PASSPORT TO THOSE WHO ARE UK NATIONALS FOR EC PURPOSES AND ANOTHER FORMAT (A LOOK-ALIKE BUT WITHOUT EC REFERENCES ON THE COVER AND ELSEWHERE) TO OTHER

BRITISH NATIONALS.

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