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So 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 the
by harry8 6y ago
So 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.
- ksec 6y ago>Everyone in Hong Kong had a British passport as good as any British passport. Where did you get that idea?
- harry8 6y agoI don't claim to be an expert historian in the area. These are memories from a vague interest in current events in those times. Wikipedia seems to support but I know that's not an end to the matter. If you have deeper information and links do please share. The 1983 act is just before they announced the 1997 handover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories_citizen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories_c... "At the time of nationality reclassification in 1983, the largest group of BDTCs (2.5 million people) was associated with Hong Kong. The deprivation of full passports and nationality rights for colonial residents was criticized for effectively codifying ethnicity as the deciding factor in determining what rights British subjects were entitled to, an impression confirmed by exceptions granted to the majority white residents of Gibraltar and – after the Falklands War – the Falkland Islands. The British government was particularly unwilling to grant full citizenship and immigration rights to Hongkongers, fearing a mass migration to the UK after the transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997."