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Will Hongkongers leave for Britain with the BN(O) ticket?

News

Hong Kong

Politics

Phila Siu

Laura Westbrook

Cyrus Chan

National security law: tears, fears, but a new life? Hong Kong early birds who have taken BN(O) path to Britain

More Hongkongers are seeking greener pastures over the perceived tightening of freedoms in the city. Illustration: Perry Tse

Hongkonger Samson Chen, 51, formerly an assistant to ex-lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung, moved to Britain in January 2021. He requested the Leave Outside the Rules status (LOTR) and was allowed to live and work in Britain for six months. They plan to apply for the BN(O) visas when applications start on January 31, 2021. 21JAN21 HANDOUT PHOTO

Hongkonger Tom Chan (fake name at the interviewee's request) moved to Britain in December to start a new page in life.  They were granted the Leave Outside the Rules status (LOTR) to live and work in Britain for six months. They plan to apply for the BN(O) visas when applications start on January 31, 2021. 21JAN21 HANDOUT PHOTO

Hongkongers Peony Lee and Nick Cheung (both fake names at the interviewees' requests) moved to Britain in December to start a new page in life. They were granted the Leave Outside the Rules status (LOTR) to live and work in Britain for six months. They plan to apply for the BN(O) visas when applications start on January 31, 2021. 21JAN21 HANDOUT PHOTO

Hongkonger Aby Wong, 28, and her boyfriend, Billy Tung, 29, moved to Britain in October to start a new page in life. They requested the Leave Outside the Rules status (LOTR) and were allowed to live and work in Britain for six months. They plan to apply for the BN(O) visas when applications start on January 31, 2021. 21JAN21 SCMP/ Cyrus Chan

Rachel Yeo

National security law: stay or leave? Quarrels, heartache as Hong Kong families torn over taking up London’s BN(O) ticket

The decision to leave Hong Kong for Britain has resulted in arguments and heartache in some families. Illustration by Perry Tse

Michael (anonymous), a BN(O) holder leaving to the UK, poses outside Tseung Kwan O MTR station.     14JAN21 SCMP / K.Y. Cheng

A picture shows British National (Overseas) passport / BNO passport. 12NOV18 SCMP / Fung Chang

Danny Lee

National security law: boost for Britain, blow to Hong Kong? How the BN(O) ticket may affect fortunes of both sides

Analysts say the battered British economy will receive a welcome boost from the arrival of a significant number of educated or rich Hongkongers. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Conservative Party candidate Johnny Luk, who is running in the 2019 UK general election. Photo: Hilary Clarke

epa08459739 (FILE) - A woman looks at adverts in an estate agent window in south-west London, Britain, 22 August 2016 (reissued 02 June 2020). Reports on 02 June 2020 state the UK has seen the largest drop monthly in May 2020, to a great part due to Covid-19, coronavirus pandemic that stopped an upward trend of the UK housing market at the start of 2020. The pandemic has caused the household income and business activity in general to fall. The data from HMRC, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs department of UK government, property transactions were 53 per cent down in April 2020 when compared with April 2019, while Nationwide, a British mutual financial institution, reported UK house prices fell 1.7 per cent in May 2020 from April, the biggest fall monthly for 11 years. EPA-EFE/HANNAH MCKAY *** Local Caption *** 52981254

(201029) -- LONDON, Oct. 29, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Seagulls fly above the River Thames backdropped by the Palace of Westminster, in London, Britain, on Oct. 28, 2020. Another 24,701 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 942,275, according to official figures released Wednesday. The coronavirus-related deaths in Britain rose by 310 to 45,675, the data showed. (Xinhua/Han Yan)

A protestor holds a BN(O) passport during a lunch hour anti-government demonstration at the IFC shopping mall in Central. The British government announced yesterday that if the national security law is implemented in Hong Kong, Hongkongers who hold the British National (Overseas) BN(O) passport will be able to apply for work and study for extendable periods of 12 months in the United Kingdom. 29MAY20 SCMP / Winson Wong

Daisy Leung, 27, (not her real name) will be moving to Britain in July 2021 using the new BN(O) visa. From January 2021, applications for the BN(O) visas will begin. 10JAN21 SCMP / Sam Tsang

The British government has offered Hongkongers with BN(O) status and their dependants a pathway to citizenship, in response to Beijing's imposition of the national security law. This series looks at those who are already living in the UK and those who are considering the move.


British National (Overseas) passport

Hong Kong national security law (NSL)

Hong Kong protests

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