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Mr Go

Gorham

PS/Mr Sainsbury Sai

Запоруку примера Mistefa

[13 MAR 1900

FROM: W G Clare, WIAD

DATE: 12 March 1990

PS

CC:

ST HELENA: REQUEST FOR BRITISH CITIZENSHIP

Problem

1. How to reply to a petition addressed to the Secretary

of State from the elected councillors on St Helena

requesting that St Helenians should be granted full

British citizenship.

Recommendation

•

I recommend that Mr Sainsbury should reply along the

lines of the attached draft. NTD and MVD concur.

Background and Argument

3. One of the direct consequences of the 1971 Immigration Act, which specified those citizens of the UK and Commonwealth who qualified for the Right of Abode in the UK, was that St Helenians were no longer free to

settle in the UK. And the 1981 British Nationality Act

conferred on St Helenians the status of British Dependent

Territories Citizen.

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