Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Nationality and Treaty Departments: Registered Files (NN, NT, TY and GN Series)

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): FCO 53

Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Nationality and Treaty Departments: Registered Files (NN, NT, TY and GN Series)

Date(s): 1967 - 1971

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 223 file(s)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Foreign Office, Treaty and Nationality Department, 1953-1962 Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1966-1968 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Treaty Department, 1968-1990

Administrative/Biographical history: 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.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in 1998

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: 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.

Various subseries within FCO 53 include files on the following subjects:

• Legislation
• Nationality
• Passport Policy And Irregularities
• Visa Abolition Agreements
• Extradition Matters
• Treaties
• Visa Abolition
• British Subjects Abroad
• Nationality Act
  
• Enforcements
• Marriages
• Passport Procedures
• Passport Changes
• Passport Facilities
• Nationality And Treaty Department
• Laws And Conventions
• Passports

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals: Series is accruing

System of arrangement: These records are contained in a Division within FCO: Records of the Protocol, Nationality, Treaty and Claims Departments

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Conditions governing reproduction:

Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

Existence and location of originals:

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Specific group:

Subjects

Foreign policy

Immigration

Passports

Nationality

Personal/Corporate names

Foreign Office, Treaty and Nationality Department, 1953-1962 Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Consular Department, 1

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nationality and Treaty Department, 1968-1990

Places