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should be recommended for citizenship. HMG representation would probably be inappropriate.
29.
Applications will only be accepted in Hong Kong.
30.
Applications will not be called in in batches. A deadline will be announced giving people say, three or four months to submit forms. The aim will be to start issuing positive and negative decisions within six months, with a view to completion of the first stage within two years.
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31. All applicants who get through the first/stage on points are to be interviewed and asked to provide documentary evidence.
32. We noted the reservations you reported about a second stage, and that staging would probably not be useful for the protective services. The proportion of cases to be held over for the second stage would be between 10 and 20%. Unsuccessful applications from the first stage would not be held over. The intention is to design the scheme sufficiently flexibly to accommodate adjustment for the second stage but to empower the Secretary of State to submit a revised scheme to Parliament for approval if necessary.
33. In accordance with BNA precedent existing children would be eligible if they are under 18 at the time when the principal beneficiary submits application.
34. The position of spouses of British ex-patriates and widows of service personnel is under consideration. We said that an announcement was expected nearer the time of the Bill's introduction to Parliament.
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35. Copies of this go to
to UK colleagues who attended discussions; to our legal advisers on the Bill, Wally Hammond and David Seymour; and to Anthony Langdon, Vivienne Dews and Roy Harrington, also in the Home Office.
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Godfrey Stadler
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