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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Nationality and Consular Department...
Catalogue reference: DO 211
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DO 211
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DO 211
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Nationality and Consular Department and predecessor: Registered Files, Consular (CLR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see FCO 47
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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)
- CLR 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
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1965-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 48 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 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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- Topics
- International
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- 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.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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 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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6220/
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