{"id":398295,"date":"2021-02-01T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398295"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:40:25","slug":"britain-opens-visa-for-hong-kongers-allowing-them-to-live-and-work-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britain-opens-visa-for-hong-kongers-allowing-them-to-live-and-work-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain opens visa for Hong Kongers allowing them to live and work in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship went live on Sunday as the city&#8217;s former colonial master opens its doors to those wanting to escape China&#8217;s crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with a British National (Overseas) passport and their dependents can now apply online for a visa allowing them to live and work in the United Kingdom. After five years, they can apply for citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The immigration scheme is a response to Beijing&#8217;s decision last year to impose a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong to snuff out the huge and often violent democracy protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship went live on Sunday as the city&#8217;s former colonial master opens its doors to those wanting to escape China&#8217;s crackdown on dissent. Anyone with a British National (Overseas) passport and their dependents can now apply online for a visa allowing them to live and work in the United Kingdom. After five years, they can apply for citizenship. The immigration scheme is a response to Beijing&#8217;s decision last year to impose a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong to snuff out the huge and often violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}