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MR GAREL-JONES' VISIT TO GIBRALTAR 25-26 SEPTEMBER 26SEP 1990

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HONG KONG: OFFER OF GIBRALTAR RESIDENT PERMITS

Points to Make

Would be helpful to learn more about precisely what your proposed scheme would involve. When your officials have worked out details perhaps you could write to me?

If it is to reinforce our efforts, the Gibraltar scheme will have to provide the assurance of a right of residence without the recipient needing to leave the territory.

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It should also avoid an automatic entitlement to British

citizenship, which would raise the problem of exceeding the 50,000 limit placed on our Nationality Package by

Parliament.

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