Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Nationality and Consular Department...

DO 176

1952-1967

This series contains registered files dealing with Commonwealth nationality questions (particularly passports, visas, registration of births and deaths and citizenship), produced by the Nationality and General Department and Nationality and Consular Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (later Commonwealth Office) from 1962, but including earlier General Department papers.

For later files concerning nationality matters see FCO 53

For earlier records in the NAT file series relating to nationality, citizenship, passport and visa matters and registration of births and deaths produced by the Protocol and Nationality Department of the Political Division (1954-1958) see

DO 35

NAT file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1966-1968
• Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1965-1966
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965

122 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

International

Population

Nationality

Between 1958 and 1962 there was no department of the Commonwealth Relations Office that dealt specifically with nationality matters. In 1962 the Nationality and General Department was set up as part of the West Indies and General (1962-1964) and later the Western, Constitutional and General (1964-1965) Divisions. In 1965 the department was dissolved and nationality responsibilities passed to the Nationality and Consular Department of the General Division (1965-1966). This continued in the Commonwealth Office until 1967, when a joint Foreign Office/ Commonwealth Office Nationality and Treaty Department was established.