UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents
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#2If you don't have an FT subscription: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hong-kong-res...
Re: UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents
#3If you don't have an FT subscription: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hong-kong-res...
Also: https://archive.vn/zVpFJ
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#4It's a pretty eye grabbing title but does anyone have primary sources to what was specifically legislated or discussed?
Seems like there's tons of editorial fillers around generalities and posturing but the only thing specific is that BNO passport holders can now take what's essentially a tourist visa to the UK for 12 months now instead of 6 months. i.e. you can come spend money but you can't earn money and it doesn't sound like a "door to citizenship".
So while it sounds magnanimous, it seems like a means to skim people already with assets rather than extending a political lifeline to petrol bomb throwers.
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#5It seems the equivalent of saying come for a longer tourist holiday, and perhaps one day you could also become a citizen, with no pathway of course.
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#6Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for, there have been colonies where millions of people died because of British policies as a result a lot of their progenies have been completely trapped in poverty, when will they offer them citizenship?
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#7Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for, there have been colonies where millions of people died because of British policies as a result a lot of their progenies have been completely trapped in poverty, when will they offer them citizenship?
I think they selected 300k of the richest from HK. As you may have guessed it's about money! Don't expect any warm welcome for the poor ones...we just had Brexit and we must make a success of it...
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#8Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for, there have been colonies where millions of people died because of British policies as a result a lot of their progenies have been completely trapped in poverty, when will they offer them citizenship?
I think they selected 300k of the richest from HK. As you may have guessed it's about money! Don't expect any warm welcome for the poor ones...we just had Brexit and we must make a success of it...
Isn't it just the 300k holders of British overseas passports?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they selected 300k of the richest from HK. As you may have guessed it's about money! Don't expect any warm welcome for the poor ones...we just had Brexit and we must make a success of it...
Isn't it just the 300k holders of British overseas passports?
You are right! It's actually more useless than I thought
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#10So just a little history.
Everyone in Hong Kong had a British passport as good as any British passport. 3am Parliament session revoked then all just before they announced the handover back to China. But what about the non-Chinese in hk? This is why ancestry visas existed. Not perfect, you got done non-white with that but not too many and you got pretty much all of white Hong Kong.
Now they'll take Hong Kong's 300k richest. How generous.