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Abroad (Hong Kong) and of the Concerned British
rafits Association during my visit. In these
Expatrafit
meetings and at my press conference, it is almost certain
that I shall be pressed very hard to state the
Government's decision. I am sure that they will not be
indeed satisfied with a further holding reply, and I do not think
it would be tactically sensible to attempt to fob them
off in that way at this time. Clearly I am going to have
to be frank. Should I be asked, therefore, I propose to
use the line agreed for supplementary questions on
20 December, as follows:
Will the spouses/dependants of expatriate British
citizens in Hong Kong be granted citizenship?
No. The new arrangements will be limited to the
dependants of those people who are selected for
inclusion in the scheme. There is already adequate
provision for people who are British citizens to
bring their families with them to the UK at any time.
However, I recognise the concern in Hong Kong that if
the British citizen died before returning here his
family would lose their route of admission to the
United Kingdom. In view of the particular
circumstances in Hong Kong the Government is prepared
to offer an assurance that a widow or widower of a
British citizen who is still resident there, who has
not remarried and who does not have any other
country's citizenship will be admitted to the United
Kingdom with his or her dependant children at any
time on the same terms as spouses of people settled
here.
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