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Members of this community may apply for British citizenship

under the British Nationality Scheme some have already been

successful.

The position of the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong has been

debated several times in Parliament recently.

- In a written answer to a Parliamentary Question on 26 July the

Home Secretary again repeated the Government's assurance to the

ethnic minority that if, against all expectations, members of

this group came under pressure to leave Hong Kong and had

nowhere else to go, the Government of the day would be expected to consider with considerable and particular sympathy their case

for admission to the UK.

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