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Coll 27/17 ‘Passports. Rules governing the issue of diplomatic visas.’ [18r] (36/69)
The record is made up of 1 file (31 folios). It was created in 3 Oct 1928-13 Feb 1947. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The
External Affairs Department,
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This document(which is of some modest antiquity, and no
recent innovation) can on occasion be of much value, as I
fancy that that part of the General Assembly delegation
recently stranded first in Cairo and then in Rome has
proved; circumstances may however render it impossible to
continue much longer to issue such a document.
2. However that may be, the pressure of demand in this
country for diplomatic passports is not likely to decrease.
On the contrary, it seems possible that whatever the United
Kingdom practice may be the Government of India will sooner
or later wish to issue diplomatic passports for themselves,
and we should like to be in a position to offer the best
advice we can on the subject when it is raised.
Could you therefore kindly let me know the pros and
cons, as His Majesty T s Government see them, of iss^ ing
diplomatic passports? We realise thrt, so far as travel
in countries outside the Commonwealth is concerned, it is
not so much the type of passport that a traveller holds as
the type of visa that appears on it that matters, and that
a diplomatic passport will not necessarily ensure that its
holder
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The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the issue of diplomatic visas, including correspondence regarding visits to India by Russian diplomats in Kabul.
It includes correspondence between the following: the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Foreign Office; the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Government of India External Affairs Department; and between HM Minister, Kabul, and the Government of India External Affairs Department.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (31 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3378
- Title
- Coll 27/17 ‘Passports. Rules governing the issue of diplomatic visas.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:33v, back, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence