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3.
range of
The Scheme is designed to cover key people in a wide
who
occupations in both the public and private sectors,
including members of the disciplined services and key
entrepreneurs,
have an important role
in to play
maintaining the prosperity and successful administration of
first phase of the Scheme started on 1
By 30 September 1992, 66,490 applications had
been received and
Hong Kong.
December 1990.
The
registered as
been 38,228 people had
British citizens under the Act.
It is expected that
applicants in the first phase of
registration of successful
the scheme will be completed by the end of 1993. In February
1992, the Governor submitted an Annual Report on the scheme
to the Home Secretary, under Section 4 of the British
Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990.
4.
As a result of lobbying by Her Majesty's Government,
international community has supported Hong Kong by
introducing similar schemes.
A prominent example is the
the
United States' Immigration Act of 1990, which provides for,
amongst other
things, the issuing of immigrant visas to Hong
Kong people
people which allow recipients to defer their settlement
in the United States until after 1997.
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