UK Citizenship Path Available to Hong Kongers in 2021

Those eligible can access the British job market at any skill level and without a salary threshold, but won’t have access to public funds.

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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.

Britain handed over Hong Kong, its former colony, to Chinese rule in 1997 under a “One Country, Two Systems” framework that was supposed to guarantee the city a high degree of autonomy and Western-style civil liberties not seen on mainland China.

(Writers: Sylvia Hui, Danica Kirka)

Source: https://apnews.com/32b25209ce0f1742e8f75de1827e2f7e