{"id":20895,"date":"2020-07-23T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T04:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/uk-reveals-details-of-special-hong-kong-visa-for-overseas-nationals"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T04:32:45","slug":"uk-reveals-details-of-special-hong-kong-visa-for-overseas-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20895","title":{"rendered":"UK reveals details of special Hong Kong visa for overseas nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary Priti Patel says BNO visa changes were \u2018proportionate response\u2019 to China\u2019s increasing control over the city<\/p>\n<p>The British government has outlined its pathway to citizenship for millions of overseas nationals in Hong Kong wanting to flee growing control exerted by Beijing over in the semi-autonomous city.<\/p>\n<p>The changes allow holders of British National (Overseas) status (BNO) and their immediate families to apply for entry visas from January 2021, for either two periods of 30 months or a single period of five years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/uk-reveals-details-of-special-hong-kong-visa-for-overseas-nationals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary Priti Patel says BNO visa changes were \u2018proportionate response\u2019 to China\u2019s increasing control over the cityThe British government has outlined its pathway to citizenship for millions of overseas nationals in Hong Kong wanting to flee gro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,491,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-migration","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/20896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}