Many Commonwealth doctors and nurses, could not find employment in their chosen professions - their qualifications were not deemed valid in England. Be­fore the Act was passed, cit­i­zens of Com­mon­wealth coun­tries had ex­ten­sive rights to mi­grate to the UK. application/pdf For instance, in the sparsely populated frontier area of San Tin in Hong Kong, 85–90 percent of the able-bodied males left for the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1962 to work in British factories, foundries, railways, buses, hotels, and restaurants. 4. //-->. google_ad_slot = "6416241264"; Isle of Man, India, Canada, European Union, British Overseas Territories, United Kingdom, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Democratic Unionist Party, United Kingdom, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Isle of Man, Parliament of Great Britain, Law, Statutory law, United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, British nationality law, Channel Islands, Immigration Act 1971, British Overseas Territories Act 2002, Canada, United Kingdom, Parliament of the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Bangladesh, Diplomacy, Jerusalem, Justine (novel), Authority control, Jalandhar, United Kingdom, Asia, Law, British Isles, Africa, British English, Black British, British Empire, Rihanna, Barbadian Canadian,