TNAG-2953-FCO40-4230-Hong-Kong-European-Community-visa-regime-for-British-Nationa-1993 — Page 84

min.visafree.NAT

JEB

CODE 18-77

Reference

message. Subject to your views, you might like to stress that (i) continuity in visa free travel arrangements is an important factor in sustaining confidence in Hong Kong (ii) people from Hong Kong are not by any definition an immigration problem and Hong Kong has tough and efficient immigration and internal controls which act as effective deterrents to would-be illegal immigrants (iii) BDTCS and BN (0)s are holders of British passports, have an excellent record of good behaviour and paying their way and are returnable to Hong Kong, where they have right of abode (and will continue to have it after 1997).

Mr Becomes Joves.

Deborah Barnes Jones Hong Kong Department WH312 telno 2068

2 September 1993

cc: Mr McLachlan ECD(I)