Immigration control in the Trucial States: new Queen's Regulation amending Trucial Oman Levies Regulation 1951

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Draft passport regulations for the Gulf to supersede the 1952 Passport Regulation and to be applied initially to Bahrain followed by Kuwait, Qatar and possibly the Trucial States (1)
• Proposed measures to improve British control over immigration into the Trucial States. These include: employing the Trucial Oman Levies, if necessary, as police to enforce passport regulations with powers of arrest without warrant which exceed those granted by the Trucial Oman Levies Regulation 1951; and withdrawing the temporary waiver applied to Saudis, but this has implications for access to Buraimi (2, 7)
• Comments on the draft Gulf passport regulations and the differences between them and the UK Aliens Order (3)
• Request for 50 copies of the Trucial States Passport Regulation No. 4 of 1952 be sent urgently to Dubai (4)
• Recommendation that the waiver applied to Saudis be revoked and that all people entering or leaving the Trucial States be forced to have travel documents issued on behalf of a competent government (5)
• Validity of UK travel documents in the Gulf held by stateless persons (6)