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(d)

(e)

(f)

Your

appreciated.

Alternatively, if the answer to (b) is in the negative, then what steps should be taken so as to forewarn Mr Ebrahim about his case? Will conditions in JD 227 be considered as having been satisfied

satisfied if we cancel Mr Ebrahim's BN (0) passport (currently retained on file by Passport Office, Newport) and mail it back to him, thus ensuring that he has been issued with a BN (0) passport (albeit a cancelled one) before 1 July 1997?

Would it be possible for us to issue BN (0) passports to those eligible, notwithstanding that they already hold and continue to hold valid BC passports, so as to conform with JD 227 and Article 4(2) of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986?

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Under existing procedures, when application for a BN(0) passport is approved, the applicant's name will be added to the BN(0) Register. Should the names of people who have been approved BN (0) passports but subsequently failed to turn up to collect their passports (i.e. the BN (0) passports have not been issued to them) be deleted from the register on 30 June 1997 as Article 4(2) of the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 and JD 227 have not been fulfilled?

kind attention and assistance in this matter is deeply

Yours sincerely

Mrs K CHOW

for Director of Immigration

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