CITIZENSHIP IN HONG KONG
[Could B4 particularly check this
Form of citizenship
British Dependent Territories citizenship
British Nationality Overseas
Acquisition
Automatically by birth in Hong Kong or birth outside Hong Kong to a Hong Kong BDTC.
By application after 5 years residence in Hong Kong.
By application by any Hong Kong BDTC
please - if possible without complicating it?]
After 1997
Right of abode
Citizenship ceases
in Hong Kong
Citizenship continues
in Hong Kong
British Overseas Citizenship
British Citizenship
A residual citizenship available to former holders of forms of British Nationality, or to certain dependents of British Nationals who would otherwise be stateless.
Automatically by birth in the UK or outside the UK to a BC. By application after 5 years residence in the UK. By
application under the special
selective arrangements for 50,000 Hong Kong families.
Citizenship continues (and may be acquired by BDTCS who do not become Chinese nationals
Citizenship continues
no right of abode but holders from Hong Kong will normally have residence rights there.
right of abode in the UK. Holders are Community nationals.
Under Chinese law and the Joint Declaration all ethnically Chinese Hong Kong residents will become Chinese nationals on 1 July 1997.
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