{"id":11402,"date":"2021-01-21T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3118681\/stripping-british-national-overseas-passport-holders-hong-kong"},"modified":"2021-01-21T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:45:21","slug":"stripping-british-national-overseas-passport-holders-of-hong-kong-residency-could-spark-another-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/stripping-british-national-overseas-passport-holders-of-hong-kong-residency-could-spark-another-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripping British National (Overseas) passport holders of Hong Kong residency could spark another crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"The British immigration scheme for Hong Kong\u2019s BN(O) passport holders is due to open for applications at the end of the month. The scheme offers Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) status a pathway to become British citizens.\r\rBN(O) passport holders will be able to apply to move to the UK to live and work. After five years, they can then apply for permanent residency, and, after a year with that status, may apply for citizenship. In addition, the rules also allow family members of the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3118681\/stripping-british-national-overseas-passport-holders-hong-kong\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British immigration scheme for Hong Kong\u2019s BN(O) passport holders is due to open for applications at the end of the month. The scheme offers Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) status a pathway to become British citizens.<\/p>\n<p>BN(O) passport h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}