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ACCEPTANCE OF BN (0) PASSPORTS BY THIRD COUNTRIES
We mounted a major worldwide diplomatic exercise before introduction of the passport on 1 July 1987 to explain new status and passport to third countries.
BN (0) passport has now been in circulation for over six months. Over 18,000 people are already travelling on it without encountering problems. No country has said it does not recognise the passport. If anyone were to encounter difficulties, we would act quickly to
ensure these were resolved.
More people are still applying for Hong Kong BDTC passports than for BN (0) passports (67,000 as against 18,000 in the last six months). Confident that rate of applications for BN (0) passports
will gradually increase as people come to recognise what a very
useful document it is.
BN(0) extends beyond 1997 unlike the Hong Kong BDTC passports which are now being issued with an increasingly limited validity and a final expiry date of 30 June 1997.
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