LKK 340/1 RECEIVE!
REGISTRY
- 6 JAN 1987
VA
IKY
Action Taken
gmak
No. 084
A
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LONDON
Tela ttached
Mak
December 10, 1986
it send by til
та ни.
が
18/12
мясн
Good news.
The Ambassador of the United States of America presents his
compliments to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has the honor
to inform the Government of the United Kingdom that, as U.S. Vice
President George Bush stated at his October 19, 1985 press
conference in Hong Kong, the United States Government will recognize
the British National (Overseas) passport.
This statement is in reply to the note dated September 30, 1986
which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office earlier presented to the
That note concerned the implementation on July 1, 1987
Ambassador.
of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order of 1986.
U.S. criteria for a passport are defined in section 101(A)(30)
of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. To wit, the term
passport means any travel document issued by a competent authority
showing the bearer's origin, identity, and nationality, if any,
which is valid for the entry of the bearer into a foreign country.
U.S. visa regulations (22 Code of Federal Regulations 41.1)
specifically state that a passport may consist of two or more documents which, when considered together, fulfill the requirements
It is the of section 101(A)(30) of the Act noted above.
understanding of the U.S. Government that when the British National (Overseas) passport comes into use in 1987, it will be valid by
In such case, itself for the entry of the bearer into Hong Kong.
the British National (Overseas) passport will by itself meet the
1172
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.