MPs calling it a "moral obligation" to extend UKās settlement route for Hong Kong youngsters
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Source: Stand News (Photograph), The Independent; #Nov11
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Source: Stand News (Photograph), The Independent; #Nov11
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MPs calling it a "moral obligation" to extend UKās settlement route for Hong Kong youngsters
//An amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill, tabled by Conservative MP Damian Green and supported by Tom Tugendhat and 11 other Tory MPs, would enable Hong Kongers with at least one parent who is a BNO citizen to apply for a UK visa.
It comes after The Independent revealed last month that Young Hong Kongers who fled police brutality are ālanguishingā in the UK asylum system because they are not able to benefit from the British National Overseas (BNO) scheme due to their age.
If the amendment were accepted, it would enable those born after 1997 to resettle in Britain on the basis of the BNO status of one or both of their parents, rather than having to travel with them.
Many of these young people may well have been involved in the protests and therefore some of them have already suffered from the new security law, and others may in the future
Home Office figures show there was an almost 500 per cent increase in asylum claims from Hong Kong nationals in the year to June 2021, rising to 124 from 21 the previous year. Fourteen of these were unaccompanied minors ā the first time on record that the UK has received asylum claims from children from the city state. //
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hong-kong-tories-bno-visa-home-office-b1955222.html
#BNO #PoliceState #HKProtest #Asylum #UKSettlement
Source: Stand News (Photograph), The Independent; #Nov11
//An amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill, tabled by Conservative MP Damian Green and supported by Tom Tugendhat and 11 other Tory MPs, would enable Hong Kongers with at least one parent who is a BNO citizen to apply for a UK visa.
It comes after The Independent revealed last month that Young Hong Kongers who fled police brutality are ālanguishingā in the UK asylum system because they are not able to benefit from the British National Overseas (BNO) scheme due to their age.
If the amendment were accepted, it would enable those born after 1997 to resettle in Britain on the basis of the BNO status of one or both of their parents, rather than having to travel with them.
Many of these young people may well have been involved in the protests and therefore some of them have already suffered from the new security law, and others may in the future
Home Office figures show there was an almost 500 per cent increase in asylum claims from Hong Kong nationals in the year to June 2021, rising to 124 from 21 the previous year. Fourteen of these were unaccompanied minors ā the first time on record that the UK has received asylum claims from children from the city state. //
Read full article
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hong-kong-tories-bno-visa-home-office-b1955222.html
#BNO #PoliceState #HKProtest #Asylum #UKSettlement
Source: Stand News (Photograph), The Independent; #Nov11
The Independent
Tories call on Home Office to stop excluding young Hong Kongers from BNO scheme
Former immigration minister Damian Green says Britain has āmoral obligationā to Hong Kong citizens born after 1997 who cannot benefit from resettlement programme