Rather than making a fetish out of passports, a better approach would be to use residence (especially tax residence) as the maincriterion for an individual's rights and responsibilities.
The global importance of the event was no longer the maincriterion for sensational treatment: it all depended on whether a sufficiently irresistible headline could be teased out of what might be a run-of-the-mill story.
In the sample of of files reviewed, we noted that the maincriterion for selecting a particular contractor appeared, in many cases, to be the purported availability of the contractor to commence the works within a reasonable timescale (which Property Conservation officers advised us in interview was considered to be approximately six weeks from instructions).