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term postings. The expatriates' argument about the importance of maintaining confidence is also undermined by their assertion that there are only about 500 expatriates with spouses who would want British citizenship. We do not know if this figure is correct but it seems implausibly low as the total expatriate community is estimated at about 18,000 and there are about 300 applications a year for spouses from Hong Kong to settle in the UK.

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