UK to open 'path to citizenship' for Hong Kong's UK passport holders

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Britain vowed to extend visa rights and provide 300,000 Hong Kong British nationals (overseas) passport holders with a path to citizenship should China impose a controversial security law that would curtail freedoms in the territory.

"If China goes down this path and implements this national security legislation we will be required to change the status of BN(O) passport holders and set in train arrangements which allow them to come to the UK for longer than the current six month period and to apply for extendable periods of 12 months of work and study, which itself will provide a pathway to citizenship," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday.