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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors:...
Catalogue reference: DO 175
What's it about?
DO 175
This series contains files of the General Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successors dealing with all aspects of migration between Commonwealth states. It includes files concerning the inter-departmental committee that...
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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DO 175
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors: Registered Files, Migration (MIG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1954-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the General Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successors dealing with all aspects of migration between Commonwealth states. It includes files concerning the inter-departmental committee that considered migration policy generally, the renewal of the Empire and Commonwealth Settlement Acts, files concerning the Overseas Migration Board, Lord Mountbatten's mission on Commonwealth immigration, and the impact of the Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later Commonwealth Office files on migration: FCO 50
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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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MIG 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, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, General and Migration Department, 1965-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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214 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6184/
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