The UK government has announced its intention to expand the special visa scheme for British National (Overseas) status holders to cover young Hongkongers born after the 1997 handover. The scheme was unveiled in July 2020 following the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime’s imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong. It allows BN(O) status holders to live, study, and work in the UK for five years and eventually apply for citizenship. But the government has acknowledged that a gap in the current scheme means some young Hongkongers born after the handover of sovereignty to Beijing on July 1, 1997, have been unable to apply for the visa. In a written ministerial statement issued on Feb. 24, immigration minister Kevin Foster said that, under the current rules, Hongkongers born on or after July 1, 1997, can only apply as a dependent as part of their BN(O) parent’s household and …