Question: is it time to leave hong kong?
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You get PR - if you apply for it. You get HK passport if you is HK born and bred. It is Chinese the passport that requires you to rescind citizenship of another country.
Maybe Scotland could be an option.....
I'll get my mackintosh!
Maybe Scotland could be an option.....
I'll get my mackintosh!
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To get a HK SAR Passport you must be ethnic Chinese. Overwise you will be refused, even if you have the right of abode in Hong Kong. Have a baby born in HK that is not ethnic Chinese, and try and get it a HK SAR passport before any other countries passport. It will be refused even if both or either parent has right of abode in Hong Kong giving the baby right of abode in Hong Kong.
A “Chinese citizen” is a person of Chinese nationality under the CNL. Hong Kong residents who are of Chinese descent and were born in the Chinese territories (including Hong Kong), or persons who satisfy the criteria laid down in the CNL as having Chinese nationality, are Chinese nationals
A businessman of Indian descent has been unable to gain Chinese nationality or a local passport even though his family came to the city nearly a century ago.
Furthermore, Philip Khan, 50, was born and raised in Hong Kong, and his late uncle fought against the Japanese in the second world war.
The businessman found himself caught in an identity crisis when he tried to run in the upcoming Legislative Council election and was told he was ineligible because he was not a Chinese national.
Khan, who speaks fluent Cantonese and has a trading business on the mainland, said the Legco ordinance went against the city’s Basic Law, which protected the rights of permanent residents to stand for elections.
In April, he tried twice to apply for Chinese nationality so that he could run for office. But immigration officers dissuaded him from even filing the applications, citing mainland nationality laws that require at least one of his parents to be a Chinese national, Khan said.
In June, Khan voluntarily took an oath before the immigration officers that he would renounce his Pakistani passport so that he could apply for an Hong Kong passport.
However, he later received a letter that said he had to prove he was a Chinese national..
A “Chinese citizen” is a person of Chinese nationality under the CNL. Hong Kong residents who are of Chinese descent and were born in the Chinese territories (including Hong Kong), or persons who satisfy the criteria laid down in the CNL as having Chinese nationality, are Chinese nationals
A businessman of Indian descent has been unable to gain Chinese nationality or a local passport even though his family came to the city nearly a century ago.
Furthermore, Philip Khan, 50, was born and raised in Hong Kong, and his late uncle fought against the Japanese in the second world war.
The businessman found himself caught in an identity crisis when he tried to run in the upcoming Legislative Council election and was told he was ineligible because he was not a Chinese national.
Khan, who speaks fluent Cantonese and has a trading business on the mainland, said the Legco ordinance went against the city’s Basic Law, which protected the rights of permanent residents to stand for elections.
In April, he tried twice to apply for Chinese nationality so that he could run for office. But immigration officers dissuaded him from even filing the applications, citing mainland nationality laws that require at least one of his parents to be a Chinese national, Khan said.
In June, Khan voluntarily took an oath before the immigration officers that he would renounce his Pakistani passport so that he could apply for an Hong Kong passport.
However, he later received a letter that said he had to prove he was a Chinese national..
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Landed, smelled and tasted the air, stayed for 2 days and vowed never to return until such time air quality is fit for humans. And the only reason I stayed for the second day was that I couldn't rebook my flight to an earlier departure.
So if you value your health at all, yes, it's probably better to find another place to live.
So if you value your health at all, yes, it's probably better to find another place to live.
The western world has exported its pollution to the Far East. The local government has allowed it.
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I have no interest in having a Chinese/SAR Passport (certainly not going to revoke my other nationalities for one) - but if HKG is refusing SAR Passports to Brits who apply for it then I hope the same is done to HK'ers who may apply to the UK.
