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on the non British spouses of British citizens will now

take care of the wives of ex-servicemen, but not widows.

4.

These points are likely to come up during my visit.

I am meeting representatives of Conservatives abroad and of the Concerned British Expatriates Association, who

have been lobbying hard about the non British spouses

issue. I am also meeting OMELCO, who raised the question

of the widows of Hong Kong ex-servicemen with

Simon Glenarthur in January 1989. We still owe them a

reply.

5. I do not think I can take a line that we are still

considering the position and that an announcement will be

made in due course. If asked, therefore, I would like to

say that:

the Government is prepared to offer an assurance that

a widow or widower of a British citizen who is still

resident in Hong Kong, who has not remarried, and who

does not have any other country's citizenship, will be admitted to the UK with his or her dependent children at any time on the same terms as spouses of people settled

here;

we propose to extend to the widows of ex-servicemen

the same concession as that offered to the non British

spouses of British expatriates.

6.

Is this acceptable to you?

Foreign and Commonwealth Office 12 January 1990

DH.

(DOUGLAS HURD)

Amarkanta A Melancharda SAMMANánar Zakaria

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