Posted on 07/01/2020 8:05:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Up to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said.
The PM said Hong Kong's freedoms were being violated by a new security law and those affected would be offered a "route" out of the former UK colony.
About 350,000 UK passport holders, and 2.6 million others eligible, will be able to come to UK for five years.
And after a further year, they will be able to apply for citizenship.
British National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong were granted special status in the 1980s but currently have restricted rights and are only entitled to visa-free access to the UK for six months.
Under the government's plans, all British Overseas Nationals and their dependents will be given right to remain in the UK, including the right to work and study, for five years. At this point, they will be able to apply for settled status, and after a further year, seek citizenship.
The PM said Tuesday's passing of a new security law by the Hong Kong authorities was a "clear and serious breach" of the 1985 Sino-British joint declaration - a legally binding agreement which set out how certain freedoms would be protected for the 50 years after China assumed sovereignty in 1997.
"It violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and threatens the freedoms and rights protected by the joint declaration," he said.
"We made clear that if China continued down this path we would introduce a new route for those with British National (Overseas) status to enter the UK, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the UK and thereafter to apply for citizenship. And that is precisely what we will do now."
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Better than Muslims.
3 million freedom loving HKers might serve as a counterbalance to all the muslims that hate freedom.
The US needs to make a special offer to Hong Kong citizens to come to the US.
100 times better!
Thatll make the Somalis happy...
Id say Trump should make the same offer in the US and put them in blue states but thats be just as oppressive.
Freedom loving capitalists escaping communism?
Bring it on!
(Vet for spies ....)
Better than 30,000 Moslems.
Although, because of them, suddenly there will be a demand that they stop immigration!
Aye, that's the rub.
OMG it would be hilarious for Trump to make that offer.
The liberals would be going nuts how to spin that as racism or anti immigrant
Some one has to pay for the the freeloading Muslim pukes
Give them Detroit. Plenty of run down housing.
Will the CCP allow them to leave or will the very act of trying to leave HK lead to your death or disappearance or remaining members of your family?
Weed out the Chinese agents.
I hope they burn what they leave behind.
The piracy of China deserves NOTHING.
The US needs to make a special offer to Hong Kong citizens to come to the US.
The British are being honorable with those allied to them in Hong Kong.
I hope we will behave similarly with Taiwan.
We could have dealt with China sooner, but someone gave Russia the Bomb.
Prediction - China will use this to send thousands of sleeper agents into the UK.
No, we dont.
We already have processes they can use.
“Will the CCP allow them to leave or will the very act of trying to leave HK lead to your death or disappearance or remaining members of your family?”
Yes, they can leave. HK still controls its own borders.
No, there will probably nor be any retaliation.
The PRC might actually like to get rid of them.
But, if 3 million people leave HK the real estate market will absolutely crash (Not necessarily a bad thing given the cost of housing there), and 3 million people going to the UK will cause a severe housing shortage in British cities as Hong Kongers are probably not going to want to live in a small town.
good.....
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