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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Nationality and Consular Department and predecessors: Registered Files, Commonwealth Nationality (NAT Series)
| Reference: | DO 176 |
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| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Nationality and Consular Department and predecessors: Registered Files, Commonwealth Nationality (NAT Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains registered files dealing with Commonwealth nationality questions (particularly passports, visas, registration of births and deaths and citizenship), produced by the Nationality and General Department and Nationality and Consular Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (later Commonwealth Office) from 1962, but including earlier General Department papers. |
| Date: | 1952-1967 |
| Related material: |
For later files concerning nationality matters see FCO 53 |
| Separated material: |
For earlier records in the NAT file series relating to nationality, citizenship, passport and visa matters and registration of births and deaths produced by the Protocol and Nationality Department of the Political Division (1954-1958) see DO 35 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | NAT file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1966-1968 Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962 Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1965-1966 Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965 |
| Physical description: | 122 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Between 1958 and 1962 there was no department of the Commonwealth Relations Office that dealt specifically with nationality matters. In 1962 the Nationality and General Department was set up as part of the West Indies and General (1962-1964) and later the Western, Constitutional and General (1964-1965) Divisions. In 1965 the department was dissolved and nationality responsibilities passed to the Nationality and Consular Department of the General Division (1965-1966). This continued in the Commonwealth Office until 1967, when a joint Foreign Office/ Commonwealth Office Nationality and Treaty Department was established. |
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