Britain's Johnson offers 'route to citizenship' for millions in HK

Johnson says the Hong Kong law will ‘curtail its freedoms and dramatically erode its autonomy’.

“Many people in Hong Kong fear their way of life – which China pledged to uphold – is under threat,” he wrote in an article for The Times newspaper and the South China Morning Post. About 350,000 people in Hong Kong currently hold British National passports, which allow visa-free access to Britain for up to six months, Johnson wrote.“If China imposes its national security law, the British government will change our immigration rules and allow any holder of these passports from Hong Kong to come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship,” he wrote.

Opponents fear it will lead to political oppression in the financial hub, eroding freedoms and autonomy supposedly guaranteed in the 1997 handover from Britain to China.If implemented, “Britain would then have no choice but to uphold our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong”, he wrote.

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