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Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration: Entry Certificates for Commonwealth...
Catalogue reference: HO 344/298
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This record is about the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration: Entry Certificates for Commonwealth... dating from 1969 in the series Home Office: Commonwealth Immigration (BSI and CWI Symbol Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 344/298
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Date (When the record was created)
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1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration: Entry Certificates for Commonwealth dependants
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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CWI 456/699/61(68)
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Migration
- Race relations
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10890639/
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HO 344
Home Office: Commonwealth Immigration (BSI and CWI Symbol Series) Files
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