08-JUL-1993 11:10
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if they would otherwise
grandchildren will have
be stateless and that their
an entitlement to acquire this
status by registration if the grandparents were BDTCS other than by descent.
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Limited transmissibility the Government cannot give indefinite rights to transmit nationality from one generation to the next especially where the territory in question is non-British. Even British citizenship will not normally be transmissible beyond the first two generations born in Hong Kong. (There are registration entitlements for the second generation born in Hong Kong but these depend upon residential links with the UK.)
vulnerability and isolation the Chinese authorities have said that ethnic minorities can apply for Chinese citizenship as well as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passports after the change of sovereignty.
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British Nationality Scheme
the Scheme was not specifically designed to help the ethnic minorities, but some of them have applied and are benefitting. Many run small businesses and such managers have been a high success rate under the Scheme. Clearly there can be no guarantees. All eligible candidates have to compete with each other for a places
Immigration assurance - repeated assurances have been given by Ministers in Parliament to the effect that if any solely British national with no claim to Chinese nationality came under pressure to leave Hong Kong the British government of the day would consider with particular sympathy their case for admission to the United Kingdom. The Government cannot tie the hands of any future Government. This is as clear and as firm an undertaking as it can give.
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