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will have already applied for BDTC status.
However, the
procedures for naturalisation as BDTCs are detailed and can take many months and we would not wish to exclude such people from the
new citizenship scheme simply on the grounds that their
applications have not been processed.
10. In all cases there will be a requirement that the applicant
should be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong. The conditions as to nationality and residence would not, however, apply to the spouses and children of successful applicants; the exclusion from registration as citizens of those dependents who were not British nationals resident in Hong Kong would hinder the purposes of the
scheme by encouraging the whole family to come to the UK to establish a common right of abode. In cases where a successful applicant ceased to be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong after gaining citizenship, he or she would lose the ability under the Bill (which is not available under existing nationality law) to transmit citizenship to a spouse in any marriage contracted after ceasing to be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong (although children of the marriage would receive it in the normal way).
Distribution of Places
11.
Annex B shows how the 50,000 assurances would be allocated between the four component schemes. 36,200 places will go to the GAS, 500 to the KES, 7,000 to the DSS and 6,300 to the SSS. Some 14% of places will be held back for a second tranche of allocations nearer to 1997 to cater for those who will by then have moved into key positions. About two thirds of all places are expected to go to the private sector. If the Approved Secondment Scheme is included, the number of places under the GAS in the second tranche (3,400) would be reduced by the 500 or so places set aside for secondments.
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