CITIZENSHIP IN HONG KONG
Form of citizenship
British Dependent Territories citizenship
British National (Overseas)
Acquisition
Automatically by birth in Hong Kong to a BDTC or a person settled there or by 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
After 1997
Citizenship ceases
Citizenship continues
Right of abode
in Hong Kong
in Hong Kong
British Overseas citizenship
British citizenship
A non transmissible citizenship acquired in 1983 by former holders of British Nationality who did not become British Citizens or BDTCs. Also available to certain wives and children of BOCs.
Automatically by birth in the UK to a person settled here or by birth outside the UK to a BC. application after 5 years
By
Citizenship continues and will be acquired by former Hong Kong BDTCS their children and grandchildren who do not become Chinese nationals
Citizenship continues
no right of abode but those in Hong Kong will normally have residence rights there.
right of abode in the UK. Holders are Community nationals.
residence in the UK. By
application under the special
selective arrangements for 50,000
Hong Kong families.
Under Chinese law and the Joint Declaration all ethnically Chinese Hong Kong residents will remain Chinese nationals on 1 July 1997 but this will not, so far as UK law is concerned, affect the continued possession of any form of British Nationality an individual may hold.
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