February 24, 2021
published at 6:30 AMReuters
A demonstrator holds up a sign at a shopping mall in Hong Kong, China, July 6, 2020.
Reuters
LONDON - Nearly 5,000 Hong Kong citizens have applied to live, work and study in the United Kingdom under a new visa scheme which opens up a path to British citizenship for people fleeing China’s crackdown in the former colony, The Times newspaper reported.
London made changes to its visa rules to give millions of Hong Kong residents a chance to settle in Britain after China imposed a new security law that democracy activists say will end the freedoms promised to the territory in 1997.