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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Nationality and Treaty Departments:...
Catalogue reference: FCO 53
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FCO 53
This series consists of registered files of the Nationality and Consular Department of the Commonwealth Office, the Treaty and Nationality Department of the Foreign Office, the joint FO/CO Nationality and Treaty Department, and its successor in...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 53
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Nationality and Treaty Departments: Registered Files (NN, NT, TY and GN Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Nationality and Consular Department of the Commonwealth Office, the Treaty and Nationality Department of the Foreign Office, the joint FO/CO Nationality and Treaty Department, and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The files deal with both policy and individual cases.
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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 Commonwealth Office nationality and consular records see DO 176
For earlier Foreign Office treaty and nationality records see FO 372
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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)
- GN, NN, NT and TY file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1966-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Treaty Department, 1968-1990
- Foreign Office, Treaty and Nationality Department, 1953-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1067 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 1999 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Nationality and Treaty Departments dealt with policy and individual cases relating to questions of nationality, visas and passports and extradition, and treaty administration matters. After the formation of the joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office department in April 1967, control of Commonwealth Office consular matter passed to a second joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office Consular Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14934/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Nationality and Treaty Departments: Registered Files (NN, NT, TY and GN Series)
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