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Miss Spencer

Mr Walters

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG CITIZENSHIP SCHEME

p.a.

105

J2213

HKD 340/4

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

11 APR 1990

DESK OFFICER INDEX

==

PA

ISTRY

upon jaken

are to meet officials

to discuss

the

citizenship

Ministers

package on 26 February. The submission is intended to serve as

a basis for that discussion; it sets out the state of development

of the scheme, following the visit by officials to Hong Kong last

week, and invites Ministers to consider a number of issues which

will affect the content of a paper for OD (K). A discussion by

OD (K) has been provisionally arranged for the week after next.

The 50,000 package

2. Officials discussed the distribution of the 50,000 places

available for heads of households on the lines set out in my

submission of 26 January, and agreed by Ministers. The overall

scheme includes four components:

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a general allocation scheme, organised on the basis of a

points system

a scheme for the disciplined services, also based on a

points system

a scheme for those involved in particularly sensitive work

in the run-up to 1997 (the 'Sensitive Services Scheme') and

a secondment scheme, to allow selected people to earn

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