Britain to change Hong Kong visa rules if China imposes security law – By Darryl Coote (UPI) / June 3 2020
(UPI) — Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday he will overhaul the country’s visa system creating a possible path to citizenship for some 3 million Hong Kong residents if China implements its new national security law.
In an op-ed published Wednesday in the South China Morning Post and The Times of London, Johnson said Britain was prepared to offer Hong Kong residents eligible for a British National (Overseas) passport a 12-month renewable visa to relocate to the European nation to work, live and study, “which could place them on a route to citizenship.”
The current visa system allots such passport holders six months of visa-free access to Britain.
“This would amount to one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history,” he said. “If it proves necessary, the British government will take this step and take it willingly.”
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