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AP |Updated 23 Jul, 2020
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A man displays the Hong Kong colonial flag on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong on July. 1, 2020. — AP/File

LONDON: Britain’s government announced on Wednesday that it will open a new special pathway to obtaining UK citizenship for eligible Hong Kongers as of January, taking another step towards solidifying a policy denounced by China.

In a statement, the Home Office said holders of the British National Overseas passport and their immediate family members can move to the UK to work and study. The change to immigration rules was introduced after Beijing imposed a new, sweeping national security law on Hong Kong.

"Today’s announcement shows the UK is keeping its word: We will not look the other way on Hong Kong, and we will not duck our historic responsibilities to its people," British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.

Britain announced in early July it was extending residency rights for up to 3 million people eligible for the British National Overseas passport in Hong Kong, stressing that it would uphold its duty to the former British colony after the new law was imposed.


Eligible individuals from Hong Kong currently can come to the UK for six months without a visa. They will have the right to live and work in the country for five years. After that, they will be allowed to apply for settled status and then again for citizenship.

Those eligible can access the British job market at any skill level and without a salary threshold, but wont have access to public funds.

The UK introduced a special, limited type of British nationality in the 1980s for people who were a British dependent territories citizen by connection with Hong Kong. The passports did not confer nationality or the automatic right to live and work in Britain, but entitled holders to consular assistance from UK diplomatic posts.
 
I doubt there will be many Hong Kong people to go to UK. Why do they want to move to a poorer country, with less opportunities of job and education?

Some may hate Chinese mainland government, but from hate to going to live in a poorer and more backward environment is a different story. The US or Canada, maybe, because there are more opportunities.

A lot of South Korean may dislike their government policies, but they would not choose to go to China even invited.
 
AP |Updated 23 Jul, 2020
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A man displays the Hong Kong colonial flag on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong on July. 1, 2020. — AP/File

LONDON: Britain’s government announced on Wednesday that it will open a new special pathway to obtaining UK citizenship for eligible Hong Kongers as of January, taking another step towards solidifying a policy denounced by China.
In a statement, the Home Office said holders of the British National Overseas passport and their immediate family members can move to the UK to work and study. The change to immigration rules was introduced after Beijing imposed a new, sweeping national security law on Hong Kong.

"Today’s announcement shows the UK is keeping its word: We will not look the other way on Hong Kong, and we will not duck our historic responsibilities to its people," British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.

Britain announced in early July it was extending residency rights for up to 3 million people eligible for the British National Overseas passport in Hong Kong, stressing that it would uphold its duty to the former British colony after the new law was imposed.


Eligible individuals from Hong Kong currently can come to the UK for six months without a visa. They will have the right to live and work in the country for five years. After that, they will be allowed to apply for settled status and then again for citizenship.

Those eligible can access the British job market at any skill level and without a salary threshold, but wont have access to public funds.

The UK introduced a special, limited type of British nationality in the 1980s for people who were a British dependent territories citizen by connection with Hong Kong. The passports did not confer nationality or the automatic right to live and work in Britain, but entitled holders to consular assistance from UK diplomatic posts.

Why not give them citizenship immediately?
 


"Today’s announcement shows the UK is keeping its word: We will not look the other way on Hong Kong, and we will not duck our historic responsibilities to its people," British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
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Historic responsibility? What about your historic responsibility to the the people of Jammu and Kashmir Mr Foreign Secretary sir? How come not one word on that. It's ironic when Brits talk about responsibility specially when they are sole responsible for the mess they created during British empire from ME to South Asia, all disputes are the ones created and left by Britain.
 
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