TNAG-2936-FCO40-4211-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-British-National-(Overseas)-1993 — Page 142

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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

Mrs Deborah Barnes Jones

Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH

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15 September 1993

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RECE

17 SEP 1993

INUE.

Overseas BN(Q) application

Our

Thank you very much for your follow-up work on the reports of contradictory statements given out by overseas posts. Unfortunately there are still some complaints from overseas. Our San Francisco Office received two complaints recently about the BE in Washington DC cancelling applicants' BDTC passport. colleagues /the problem with the BCG in San Francisco which also received a couple of similar complaints and gathered that the explanation given by the BE in Washington DC for cancelling BDTC passports was that the applicants did not express a wish to keep the BDTC passports.

There are a

I should be grateful if you would remind the BE in Washington DC of the agreed arrangements. considerable number of HKBDTCS in the United States and BE Washington DC is the only post that deals with passport applications. I am afraid if things go wrong in the US there will be considerable criticism.

Your

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