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Hong Kong authorities tells 14 countries to stop accepting special British passport

//The Hong Kong government on March 25, 2021 confirmed a Reuters report that it had told 14 countries to stop accepting a British travel document that many of its young people use to apply for working holiday visas in Europe, North America and parts of Asia...

“The Hong Kong government has no authority to dictate which passports foreign governments recognise as valid,” a spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office said when asked about the Reuters report.

“The UK will continue to issue British Nationals (Overseas) passports which remain valid travel documents.”

Almost 3 million Hong Kong residents hold or are eligible for the BNO document that was created ahead of Britain handing the city back to Chinese rule in 1997.

Hong Kong has also started to mirror mainland China by not recognising dual nationality, preventing for the first time foreign diplomats from visiting locals with foreign passports in detention...//

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-security-passports-exclusive-idUSKBN2BH0PR

Source: Reuters #Mar25

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