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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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