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TELNO

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INFO IMMEDIATE JLG HONG KONG

YOUR TELNO 1289: BDTC/BN(0) PASSPORT ARRANGEMENTS FOR BRITISH

CITIZENS

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1. TUR raised concerns about instructions contained in our telno

154 to overseas posts (not to JLG) which gave guidelines about

how British citizens (BCs) can be registered as British Nationals

Overseas (BN (0)s) and about endorsing the passports of BCs who

have so registered.

2. To meet your concern on the problems potentially arising after 30 June 1997 from an endorsement stating that the holder

has right of abode in Hong Kong, we propose that the endorsement of the BC passport be simplified to read "The holder of this

passport is also a British National (Overseas)." This follows

standard practice as set out in DSP.

3. On right of abode, our working assumption had been that the

vast majority of BN (0)s would have right of abode in Hong Kong

after 1997. The instructions in our TUR were based on

arrangements

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