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WIVES AND WIDOWS OF EX SERVICEMEN
Existing undertaking
P.8/12
Annex B
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1. During the Second Reading of the British Nationality (Hong
Kong) Act 1990 the Home Secretary gave an immigration assurance
that the spouses of any British citizens who had died and who had
been resident in Hong Kong would be allowed to come to the United
to settle and, after filling residence qualifications to apply for Buition Kingdom providing they were still resident in Hong Kong, did not
a tizenship
have the citizenship of another country (this condition was later
dropped) and had not remarried. It was made clear that this same
assurance also extended to the wives and widows of former
servicemen who served in the defence of Hong Kong during the
Second World War under the Government of Hong Kong, irrespective
of the husband's nationality. Pressure is now being renewed for
the ex-servicemen's spouses and widows to be granted British
It is understood that there are only a few dozen
citizenship.
of them and in view of local sympathy for their cause the Hong
ting will ask HMG to Kong Government has indicated to Mr McGregor that their case for bok again at
Lan for his British citizenship will be looked at again.
the case.
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the usual
residence
qualifications
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Legislative position
2. There is no means of granting citizenship within existing
legislative provisions. The British Nationality Act 1981 gives
no registration entitlement to the spouses of existing British
They have to meet the normal 3 year United Kingdom
citizens.
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