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";
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