TNAG-1568-FCO40-2134-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-passports-Hong-Kong-(Br-1986 — Page 21

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No

9. BDTC passports currently held by Hong Kong people will remain fully valid until their date of expiry or until they are handed in on application for a BN (0) passport. BDTC passport issued to a Hong Kong BDTC from 1 July 1987 will be valid beyond 30 June 1997. Such passports issued in Hong Kong until that date will continue to be issued by

the Governor.

RETURNABILITY TO HONG KONG

10.

The British Government have agreed with the Chinese Government that the passports of BN (0)s will be endorsed as follows:

"The holder of this passport has Hong Kong

permanent identity card number

(xyz)

which

states that the holder has the right of abode in Hong Kong."

This endorsement will guarantee the holder's returnability to Hong Kong, both before and after 1 July 1997. BN (0)S

will in fact

in fact have exactly the same returnability to Hong

Kong as BDTCS from the

the territory.* It has been agreed

between the British and Chinese Governments that the

referred permanent identity cards issued by the Hong Kong Government up to 30 June 1997 will continue to be used after that date until replaced by

permanent

identity

cards

to in this endorsement

issued

by the Special

Administrative Region Government and that such replacements

will bear the same number.

NUMBERS

11.

Hong

passports

There are currently about three and a quarter million

Kong BDTCS of whom just over one

million

hold

in

that status.

All Hong Kong

BDTCS will

be

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