Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents
by ksec on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:59AM
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It is basically a way of allowing them to work indefinitely until they are good enough for Citizenship. Whatever Good enough might means, I would guess that would be some sort of professional requirement.
As long as they dont have Citizenship, they wont have any benefits such as medical, retirement and other benefits etc.
If I am going to guess they want people to fill them gap of some low cost labour that wont be available post Brexit.
Seems like there's tons of editorial fillers around generalities and posturing but the only thing specific is that BNO passport holders can now take what's essentially a tourist visa to the UK for 12 months now instead of 6 months. i.e. you can come spend money but you can't earn money and it doesn't sound like a "door to citizenship".
So while it sounds magnanimous, it seems like a means to skim people already with assets rather than extending a political lifeline to petrol bomb throwers.