It has been over two years since the United Kingdom launched The BNO (5+1) visa for Hong Kong people at the end of January 2021.
The British Home Office announced that as of the first quarter of 2023, a total of 139,144 people had been approved for BNO visas abroad, of which 113,500 have arrived in the UK.
In the first quarter of 2023, the Home Office received 9,411 BNO applications.
After Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement in 2019, Beijing passed the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law to stifle Hong Kong’s freedom.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated in June 2020 that the Hong Kong National Security Law severely destroyed the Sino-British Joint Statement; The British government immediately launched an immigration visa program specifically for Hong Kong people. The program ushered in a new wave of large-scale immigration from Hong Kong, a former third-largest financial center in the world….