{"id":35343,"date":"2021-08-17T02:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/hongkongers-need-more-help-to-settle-in-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-08-17T02:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:21:31","slug":"hongkongers-need-more-help-to-settle-in-the-uk-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35343","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers need more help to settle in the UK | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hongkongers escaping China\u2019s repression are being denied fair access to homes and jobs in the UK, says <strong>Sarah Champion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/uk-not-doing-enough-to-support-those-fleeing-hong-kong-advocacy-group-says\" title=\"\">UK not doing enough to support those fleeing Hong Kong, advocacy group says, 8 August<\/a>) demonstrates the current failure of the British government to plan for Hongkongers arriving in the UK under the British National (Overseas) visa scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government recently told the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong that they had written to regulators and professional associations calling for a unified way of assessing qualifications from BN(O) status holders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/hongkongers-need-more-help-to-settle-in-the-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hongkongers escaping China\u2019s repression are being denied fair access to homes and jobs in the UK, says Sarah ChampionYour article (UK not doing enough to support those fleeing Hong Kong, advocacy group says, 8 August) demonstrates the current failure o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,50,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343\/revisions\/35344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}