British nationality law and Hong Kong | Wikipedia audio article
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British nationality law and Hong Kong


00:01:14 1 Early colonial era
00:02:25 1.1 iBritish Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914/i
00:03:05 1.2 iBritish Nationality Act, 1948/i
00:04:40 1.3 Commonwealth Immigrants Acts
00:06:10 1.4 iBritish Nationality Act, 1981/i and British Dependent Territories Citizenship
00:07:37 2 After the Sino-British Joint Declaration
00:08:34 2.1 Creation of the British National (Overseas) status: the iHong Kong Act, 1985/i and the iHong Kong (British Nationality) Order, 1986/i
00:09:20 2.1.1 British Overseas Citizen status for those who are 'otherwise stateless'
00:09:54 2.2 iBritish Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1990/i: British citizenship for 50,000 Hong Kong families
00:11:13 2.3 iHong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act, 1996/i: British citizenship for Hong Kong war wives and widows
00:11:59 2.4 iBritish Nationality (Hong Kong) Act, 1997/i: British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) without Chinese ancestry
00:13:07 2.5 iNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, 2002/i: British Overseas Territories Citizen status is not applicable to Hong Kong
00:14:01 2.6 iBorders, Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2009/i: British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who do not have another nationality or citizenship
00:15:34 3 Chinese view on nationality of Hong Kong residents
00:18:00 4 Recent groups eligible for a form of British Nationality
00:18:12 4.1 British citizenship for non-ethnic Chinese which were wrongfully denied
00:18:53 4.2 British Overseas Citizen status/British citizenship for certain ethnic Indians (new Indian law)
00:19:47 4.3 British Overseas Citizen status/British citizenship for certain ethnic Nepalese (reinterpretation of Nepalese law)
00:20:30 4.4 British citizenship for British Nationals (Overseas) who are otherwise stateless
00:21:10 5 Future of the British National (Overseas) status: Lord Goldsmith's citizenship review in 2008
00:21:41 6 See also
00:22:09 6.1 Government documents
00:23:26 6.2 Legislations
00:23:57 6.3 Newspapers/Commentaries



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British nationality law  as it pertains to Hong Kong has been unusual ever since Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842. From its beginning as a sparsely populated trading port to today's cosmopolitan international financial centre of over seven million people, the territory has attracted refugees, immigrants and expatriates alike searching for a new life.
Citizenship matters were complicated by the fact that British nationality law treated those born in Hong Kong as British subjects (although they did not enjoy full rights and citizenship), while the People's Republic of China did not recognise Hong Kongers with Chinese ancestry as British. The main legal rationale for the Chinese position was that recognising these people as British could be seen as tacit acceptance of a series of treaties which China labels as "unequal" – including the ones which ceded the Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and the land between the Kowloon Peninsula and the Sham Chun River and neighbouring islands (i. e. the New Territories) to the UK. The main political reason was to prevent the vast majority of Hong Kong residents from having any recourse to British assistance (e.g. by claiming consular assistance or protection under an external treaty) after the handover.