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A year after the Government's visa scheme gave them a route to the UK, thousands are arriving every week, ready to become model citizens
Ask a thousand people what is the biggest question Britain faces on the subject of immigration, and most would probably cite the trickle of desperate refugees attempting to enter the country across the Channel in small boats. A lot would talk about the post-Brexit exodus of Eastern Europeans and how difficult that has made getting a builder.
It is likely not one would be concerned, pleased, or have any view at all on what could turn out to be the biggest ever immigration to the UK: the potential legal arrival of three to five million Hong Kong Chinese people – 70 per cent of the former colony’s population – as they find life under Beijing rule ever more intolerable.
Indeed, since the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa launched a year ago tomorrow, the influx of Hong Kongers has been proceeding apace without anyone seemingly noticing. According to the latest data published by the Home Office in November, the UK received 88,000 applications – some 2,500 a week – and granted 76,000.
Almost all intend to stay; few see any prospect of returning to the home they still love. For many, who don’t just dislike their new communist rulers but have already offended them by expressing their views, even returning on holiday would be dangerous.
The new arrivals are predominantly not the wealthy Hong Kongers who have been buying up luxury properties in London and investment properties across the country for years, but what in Hong Kong would be called “grassroots” people and here we would call middle class – corporate and civil service employees, IT specialists, engineers, accountants, business owners and their families.
Educated, motivated, often strongly Christian, with democratic ideals, good English and – importantly – not inconsiderable funds, they share a desire to make a new life and “not to be any trouble”.
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A year after the Government's visa scheme gave them a route to the UK, thousands are arriving every week, ready to become model citizens
Ask a thousand people what is the biggest question Britain faces on the subject of immigration, and most would probably cite the trickle of desperate refugees attempting to enter the country across the Channel in small boats. A lot would talk about the post-Brexit exodus of Eastern Europeans and how difficult that has made getting a builder.
It is likely not one would be concerned, pleased, or have any view at all on what could turn out to be the biggest ever immigration to the UK: the potential legal arrival of three to five million Hong Kong Chinese people – 70 per cent of the former colony’s population – as they find life under Beijing rule ever more intolerable.
Indeed, since the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa launched a year ago tomorrow, the influx of Hong Kongers has been proceeding apace without anyone seemingly noticing. According to the latest data published by the Home Office in November, the UK received 88,000 applications – some 2,500 a week – and granted 76,000.
Almost all intend to stay; few see any prospect of returning to the home they still love. For many, who don’t just dislike their new communist rulers but have already offended them by expressing their views, even returning on holiday would be dangerous.
The new arrivals are predominantly not the wealthy Hong Kongers who have been buying up luxury properties in London and investment properties across the country for years, but what in Hong Kong would be called “grassroots” people and here we would call middle class – corporate and civil service employees, IT specialists, engineers, accountants, business owners and their families.
Educated, motivated, often strongly Christian, with democratic ideals, good English and – importantly – not inconsiderable funds, they share a desire to make a new life and “not to be any trouble”.
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