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echo: barktopus
to: Dave Ings
from: Phil Payne
date: 2003-02-12 00:44:48
subject: Re: Bureaucracy gone nuts

From: Phil Payne 

> ... unless the law is still written so that it is your father's place of
> birth that counts. I have a vague recollection that this is the way the
> mid-80s revisions to the UK passport statutes were written. (My Dad was
> English too.)

That never became law - we moved Sarah back to the UK in 1980 for Thomas to
be born, but the legislation never actually made it through Parliament.
Some sort of unpleasantness in the South Atlantic, I think.

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