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5.
It is difficult to be precise about the proportion of applications which are being rejected, withdrawn or allowed to lapse as we are still dealing with applications dating back to 1971. In round figures however, the rejection rate has gone up from about 20% during 1971-74 to over 60% at the present time. I hasten to add that this increase in the rejection rate has not so far led to any complaints from aggrieved applicants. This is mainly, I believe, because the people in question have not felt sufficiently strongly about wanting British nationality for its own sake, and because in practice they find no undue difficulty in travelling overseas on a Hong Kong Certificate of Identity.
6.
With the help we have had from you, it looks as if the backlog will have been cleared in about six months from now. From then on, assuming no increase in the rate of new applications, I would expect the number of certificates forwarded to you for approval to be about 400 a year. On this basis there will have been a clear downward trend over the period 1971-77, and, possibly, even over the shorter period 1971-76.
7.
Do please let me know if there are any further points that occur to you.
C.C.
Secretary for Security, Hong Kong.
Yours even
Marken herlands.
Manteni
J. M. Rowlands) Director of Immigration.
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(2)
Applications
rejected,
withdrawn or
Applications received in Hong Kong for Naturalisation
under the British Nationality Act 1948
(1)
New Applications
(3)
Applications
approved and certificates
(4)
Applications outstanding
at end of
received
lapsed
issued
period
1971
1st qtr.
251
36
319
806
2nd qtr.
297
30
205
868
3rd qtr.
374
21
164.
1,057
4th qtr.
200
30
176 $64
1,051
1972
1st qtr.
262
57
151
1,105
2nd qtr.
262
52
157
1,158
3rd qtr.
250
51
222
1,135
4th qtr.
315
48
164
1,238
1973
1st qtr.
215
64
83
1,306
2nd qtr.
247
33
85
1,435
>
3rd qtr.
261
94
66
1,536
4th qtr.
295
55
95
324
1,681
1974
1st qtr.
207
34
121
1,733
2nd qtr.
223
53
73
1,830
3rd qtr.
316
49
226
1,871
4th qtr.
265
92
123
543
1,921
1975
1st qtr.
202
215
19
1,889
2nd qtr.
255
204
92
1,848
3rd qtr.
300
351
123
230
1,674
October
91
89
5
1,67.1
Immigration Department, Hong Kong.
(Ref. IMM/CR 1521 SF'A')
6th November 1975.
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