British National (Overseas) visa — Home Office route, opened 31 January 2021
tlte-cite:bn-o-scheme-2020The BN(O) visa route was announced by the UK Government in July 2020 and opened on 31 January 2021, in response to the imposition of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. It offers a five-year-plus-one-year route to settlement and citizenship to holders of BN(O) status and their dependants. Anchor precedent for: (a) UK creation of a bespoke protection-and-mobility route on post-colonial grounds; (b) capped, vetted, lawful entry — not a general migration channel; (c) a route designed around an acknowledged constitutional relationship rather than humanitarian appeal alone. TLTE cites BN(O) as a PRINCIPLE of available UK policy machinery, not as a model to copy.
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