TNAG-2198-FCO40-3152-Hong-Kong-nationality-spouses-and-widows-of-British-expatria-1990 — Page 192

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The argument usually adduced by British husbands working in Hong Kong is that their morale is adversely affected by the fact that their wives cannot obtain the security of British citizenship

unless they resign and return with their wives to the

We do not accept thing ument becure. United Kingdom. Our response to this has usually been that the wife

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of a British citizen has the right to accompany her husband to the

and when the family wish to leave United Kingdom at any time and can obtain settlement and citizenship dered in the normal way the Home Secretary announced during Second Korey Reading of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill on 19 April 1990

that the widow or widower of a British citizen resident in Hong Kong

would be allowed to come to the United Kingdom if they were still

resident in Hong Kong, had not remarried and did not have a

citizenship other than BDTC or Chinese. This is a valuable reassurance to those British citizens in Crown or designated service

in Hong Kong who are married to DDTCS or Chinese nationals and who

are anxious about the fate of their spouse in the event of their

being widowed before achieving settlement in the United Kingdom.

are not however directly relevant That concession will not, however, help the men married to women

with other nationalities, such as Filipino. And it does not, in

any event, assist us in determining applications for citizenship

from those whose husbands are in Crown or designated service and who may apply under existing law for the 3 year United Kingdom residence requirement to be waived.

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