Immigration: Hong Kong

(asked on 18th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people from Hong Kong have applied for residence in the UK in each of the last six months.


Answered by
Lord Greenhalgh Portrait
Lord Greenhalgh
This question was answered on 1st February 2021

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route opened for applications on 31 January 2021.

From 15 July to 14 October 2020, a total of 2116 BN(O) citizens and their dependants have been granted Leave Outside the Rules at the border. Yet this data is not considered to be a reliable proxy for the number of people who may apply for the Hong Kong BN(O) Visa.

As set out in our impact assessment, our central range projects between 123,000 and 153,700 BN(O) citizens and their dependants will come in the first year and between 258,000 and 322,400 over five years.

Details of the impact assessment can be found at: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/70/pdfs/ukia_20200070_en.pdf

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