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passport to the effect that the holders are also holding permanent identity cards of the HK SAR and have a right of
abode in the HK SAR. This will assure third countries that these people have a permanent home to which they can and they
will return.
It would seem imperative that the Joint Liaison Group should address this particular problem and work out a suitable and irrevocable arrangement before the format of the new BN (0) passport is settled.
This immigration dilemma could affect in particular ethnic minorities in Hong Kong who are neither Chinese nor British, but victims still of the BDTC
If not BNO syndrome. to Hong Kong where will they belong after generations of living
here?
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For future BNO passport holders, there are many grey and worrying areas which the appropriate authorities must clarify in no uncertain terms :
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It is said that BNO passport holders will have to carry their Hong Kong SAR identity cards as proof of their right of abode in Hong Kong. But since the BNO passport will be a UK-issued document, and the Hong Kong SAR identity card not so, what provisions will be made to ensure that third countries will accept the identity
card in its own right as positive proof? And whose responsibility will it be to ensure that the BNO passport and the SAR identity card will be accepted in third countries as complementary
documents?
BDTC passports are valid for ten years unless
What will be the validity of
otherwise stated.
the BNO passport?