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

DO 211

1964-1967

This series contains records relating to Commonwealth consular matters created by the Nationality and General and the Nationality and Consular Departments of the Commonwealth Relations and Commonwealth Offices.

Former file reference

For later records see FCO 47

CLR file series

Public Record(s)

English

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

48 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

In 1967 when a joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office Consular Department was established, the records of consular work in both Offices were shared, but not merged or re-registered. The records of the joint department passed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office when it was created in October 1968.

No future accruals expected

The Nationality and General Department was responsible, among other things, for the conduct of consular relations in the Commonwealth, and this responsibility passed in 1965 to a new Nationality and Consular Department, which continued its work after the creation of the Commonwealth Office. In 1967, in preparation for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, consular matters were an area taken over by joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office departments, and the Joint Consular Department handled all Commonwealth consular matters from then until the formation of FCO in October 1968.