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  2. British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983 - Wikipedia

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    British Dependent Territories citizens were restricted in their right to enter and stay in the UK. The new Act conferred full British citizenship on the residents of the Falkland Islands, giving them more preferential status than that of other BDTCs, including BDTCs of Gibraltar (whose British citizenship must be voluntarily applied for). The ...

  3. Falkland Islanders - Wikipedia

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    The Islanders are British, albeit with a distinct identity of their own: British cultural, economic, social, political and educational values create a unique British-like, Falkland Islands. Yet Islanders feel distinctly different from their fellow citizens who reside in the United Kingdom.

  4. Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute - Wikipedia

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    The UK had also denied Falkland Islanders full British citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981. Commander-in-chief of the Argentine Navy, Admiral Jorge Anaya. In 1982, Argentina was in the midst of a devastating economic crisis and large-scale civil unrest against the repressive military junta that was governing the country.

  5. Falkland Islands status - Wikipedia

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    Falkland Islands status is a legal status in the Falkland Islands (the Falklands form of belonger status) defined by section 22(5) of the Falkland Islands Constitution and the Falkland Islands Status Ordinance, 2007 and is considered to be the closest thing to citizenship that the Falkland Islands can grant.

  6. Britain says it was 'regrettable' that the EU called the ...

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    The British government said Thursday that the European Union made a “regrettable choice of words” when it referred to the U.K.-run Falkland Islands as the Malvinas, the name preferred by ...

  7. Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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    The predominant (and official) language is English. Under the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983, Falkland Islanders are British citizens. The islands lie at the boundary of the subantarctic oceanic and tundra climate zones, and both major islands have mountain

  8. UK's Cameron vows to protect Falkland Islands - AOL

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    British foreign minister David Cameron vowed on Monday to help protect the Falkland Islands as long as they wanted to remain under British control despite attempts by Argentina's new leader to ...

  9. British Nationality Act 1981 - Wikipedia

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    After the Falklands War, full British citizenship was granted to the Falkland Islanders by the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983. Gibraltarians were also permitted to retain full British citizenship.