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23 August 1993

M V Stone Esq Deputy Secretary

Civil Service Branch Hong Kong Government HONG KONG

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Decer Mike,

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-

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24 AUG 1993

DESK OFFICE.

INDE

LOCALISATION

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1. We have seen a copy of circular SPH 1/1/C(C) (93) III entitled "Transfers from Overseas to Local Conditions of Service". asked NTCD what the position would be for a British citizen who, deciding to transfer to local conditions of service, applied for naturalisation as BDTC (in accordance with the need to demonstrate his or her commitment to Hong Kong by becoming a permanent resident "as defined under the Immigration Ordinance").

A British citizen who also has

2. I attach NTCD's response. BDTC/BN (0) status may not hold separate passports for each status. But citizens may hold a passport in one status with an observation that they hold the other. I enclose the Diplomatic Service Procedure reference to the procedures to be followed in such a case.

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I expect you have this information from separate sources, but thought it worth passing on. Are any/many of candidates for transfer to local conditions of service British citizens?

Yours ever,

IN Barnes Jones.

Deborah Barnes Jones Hong Kong Department

Ps Did you get together with Nigel during his thip

to Hong Kong?

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