{"id":27632,"date":"2021-02-01T19:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/hong-kong-migration-agents-report-rush-inquiries-uk-visas"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:25:53","slug":"hong-kong-migration-agents-report-rush-of-inquiries-for-uk-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27632","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong migration agents report rush of inquiries for UK visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High level of interest in scheme launched on Sunday comes despite fears applications will be monitored<\/p>\n<p>Migration agents in Hong Kong say they have had a rush of inquiries from people seeking to access the new visa scheme launched by the UK government on Sunday, despite fears their applications will be monitored.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Home Office is expecting about 300,000 people to exercise a newly offered right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/leave-hong-kong-before-its-too-late-say-those-who-now-call-britain-home\">to move to Britain and eventually seek citizenship<\/a> in the next five years. The scheme was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/oct\/22\/over-1m-people-could-come-to-uk-from-hong-kong-within-five-years-official-estimate\">announced in July<\/a> in response to the worsening security situation in Hong Kong, as the Chinese government tightens its control over the city with a draconian national security law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/hong-kong-migration-agents-report-rush-inquiries-uk-visas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High level of interest in scheme launched on Sunday comes despite fears applications will be monitoredMigration agents in Hong Kong say they have had a rush of inquiries from people seeking to access the new visa scheme launched by the UK government on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,717,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions\/27634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}