The British oversea territories The British Overseas Territories are 14 territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom. They are the remaining parts of the British Empire that have not been granted independence or have voted to remain British territories. Several of them are known as tax heavens and the British government is continuing to prevent them being put on the ...

Dec 29, 2012 · Their overseas territories ARE France, pretty much. Need a passport as it's not part of Schengen space, but you can work and live in those territories if you wished, as they are part of the EU. The British Overseas Territories are not. NOTE: Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man are Crown dependencies, not Overseas Territories. Slightly different.

Dec 9, 2021 · The UK has many island territories around the world, such as the Falklands, Pitcairn, Bermuda, St. Helena, the Isle of Man, etc. These islands are territories and not full parts of the UK France has integrated some of their former lands like French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte, they are full departments of France. Why isn’t the same for the U.K.? Is there any reason why these islands are not ...

Jun 20, 2023 · The British Overseas Territories are fascinating to me; far-flung remnants of the British Empire which still want to be under UK sovereignty: Anguilla, Bermuda, the BVI, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos, and a handful of even smaller islands. Most of these polities have voted on potential independence or switching sovereignty to another ...

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Sep 28, 2022 · The UK's "crown dependencies" and "overseas territories" all have roughly the same status. The UK government retains full sovereignty over them but, in practice, mostly allows them to manage their own affairs except for defence and international relations. Their inhabitants usually have full British citizenship.

Nov 18, 2022 · Overseas Territories are colonies and so are more based on English law. Both of the Channel Islands had French language-based legal systems until after the second world war, and as part of their legal training you need to study in France for a while, including being fairly fluent in French in order to understand the old laws.

Others are called overseas territories or collectivities, like New Caledonia, French Polynesia or TAAF. They aren't incorporated into France, and hence aren't part of the EU. British overseas territories have roughly the same status as that group. 135 [deleted]

Dec 26, 2014 · The name "British Overseas Territory" was introduced by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, replacing the name British Dependent Territory introduced by the British Nationality Act 1981. Prior to 1 January 1983, the territories were officially referred to as Crown colonies. With the exceptions of the British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (which ...

How does American history, in this case the history of the British North America colonies in the 1760's and 1770's have any bearing on the nationality status of British Overseas Territories in the 2020's?