TNAG-2193-FCO40-3130-Hong-Kong-nationality-package-1990 — Page 68

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but children over the age of 18:

bưởn the bend of household is issued with a voucher the position of those children he wishes to take with him should be considered at the same time. Entry clearances should be issued in accordance with the unpublished concessions to UKPH (see paragraphs 39 to 40) to those children who are listed in their parent's voucher application, áre still genuinely dependent and otherwise meet the provisions of the Immigration Rules. Where there is a queue, however, it may be that a child who was dependent when the voucher application was made

In such circum- is no longer dependent when the voucher is issued. stances, those UKPW children over 18 who have ceased to be dependent

and the inclusion nince FC applications were lodged on their behalf of a dependent child in a voucher application constitutes such an EC application - should be treated as having made voucher applications,

This in their own right back-dated to their eighteenth birthday. procedure should only be applied where the child is eligible to receive a voucher in his own right, ie it will not apply, for example, to non-1 children nor to daughters who have married.

Procedure when the head of household dies in the queue:

33. Where a head of household dies after making an application but before receiving a voucher, his place in the voucher queue should be offered to his widow if she is herself eligible to receive a voucher. If she is not eligible or she does not wish to take his place it

Any soould not be offered to any other members of the family. children on whose behalf the dead man had lodred FC applications and who are over 18 at the time of his death, may be treated as having made voucher applications in their own right back-dated to their eighteenth birthday, regardless of whether or not their mother

(If a widow does chooses to take their father's place in the queue. choose to take her husband's place any children over 18 but under 25 who are still dependent will be eligible to receive ECs when she receives her voucher.)

Women who marry in the oueue:

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There a LIPH woman who has made a voucher application in her own right as a hand of household marries before receiving her voucher che censes to be eligible to receive one. However, her place in the voucher queue may be taken by her husband, if he is himself eligible to receive a voucher, provided:

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