CALL ON MR GOODLAD BY A DELEGATION OF LEGCO COUCILLORS LED BY MISS EMILY LAU TO DISCUSS NATIONALITY MATTERS: 0830 ON 9 JUNE
POINTS TO MAKE
Ethnic Minorities
Recognise the contribution made to Hong Kong by this community; they have an important part to play in ensuring the continuing prosperity and stability of Hong Kong. (Chinese have indicated that they too recognise this contribution).
- Stand by reassurances given by this and previous Governments; we consider it an obligation upon any future government to consider with particular sympathy the case for admission to the United Kingdom of any Hong Kong resident with solely British nationality in the unlikely event of their coming under severe pressure to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere else to go.
Home Office reviewing Legco's request for further consideration of the case for British citizenship for those Hong Kong residents of non-Chinese race who have solely British nationality. Understand you will call on the Home Secretary and Mr Wardle.
- Mrs Tu wrote to me recently about the case for British citizenship you may like a copy of my reply. Would like you to correct misapprehensions which may exist in Hong Kong about the future nationality status of these people.
(a) Wrong to say that this community will become stateless - they will retain British Nationality after 1997 (either BN (0) or BOC). Their children and their grandchildren will normally acquire BOC status if they would otherwise be stateless. This is a reasonable provision (even British citizenship not
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