CGTN published this video item, entitled “Explainer: What is the new BNO visa scheme and who can apply?” – below is their description.
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https://www.cgtn.com/video
China will not recognize British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a valid travel and ID document starting January 31. The announcement came ahead of a new visa program introduced by the UK in response to the national security law passed in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region last year. So who can apply and what will they have to do in order to settle in the UK?
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.