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Series
Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Migration and Visa Department...
Catalogue reference: FCO 50
What's it about?
FCO 50
This series consists of registered files of the General and Migration Department of the Commonwealth Office relating to Commonwealth matters which were not the responsibility of a specific department, and its successor in the Foreign and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 50
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Migration and Visa Department and predecessor: Registered Files (GM and GV Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the General and Migration Department of the Commonwealth Office relating to Commonwealth matters which were not the responsibility of a specific department, and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Migration and Visa Department.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier records see DO 175
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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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GM file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commonwealth Office, General and Migration Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Migration and Visa Department, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1049 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Migration
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The General and Migration Department handled matters relating to the Commonwealth generally which did not have their own specific departments - principally fisheries and the law of the sea, scientific co-operation and independence gifts. It also handled Commonwealth immigration and emigration matters, including policy related to the Commonwealth Immigration Act. Migration matters passed to the Migration and Visa Department when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was established in October 1968, while the general subjects were dealt with by the Aviation, Marine and Telecommunications Department, Scientific Relations Department and other subject departments as appropriate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14929/
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