[15 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
New Membership

On behalf of BritishHongKong, I am truly delighted to announce that BritishHogKong has successfully joint the membership of the three following organisations: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), and Justice.

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[15 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
New Membership

On behalf of BritishHongKong, I am truly delighted to announce that BritishHogKong has successfully joint the membership of the three following organisations: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), and Justice.

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[17 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

In order to enhance our service to those who need out help, BritishHongKong has now installed a call centre. Thank you.
• 01312081008  UK
• 81913221  Hong Kong
• 00441312081008 (calls from outside HK and the UK)

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[26 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

Legislative Scruting: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill  9th Report of Session 2008-09
In this report, we welcome the introduction of the new positive duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the discharge of immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions. This is a human rights enhancing measure which is a long overdue reversal of the Government’s previous policy, which excluded children subject to immigration control from the protection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We will be looking carefully for evidence that this welcome change in …

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[21 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

South China Morning Post’s article by Ambrose Leung has indeed misrepresented BritishHongKong by solely emphasising one of the aims, which is dangerously misleading to the general public in Hong Kong. It is indeed tremendously clear that the core aim of the organisation is “fighting for both full British and European Citizenship”, rather than “educating BN(O) passport holders to be proud British.” Such misrepresentation of BritishHongKong has to be pointed out.
Furthermore, BritishHongKong has never had any formal interview with SCMP and Mr Sham has stated that, at an informal meeting, …

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[20 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Government’s latest amendment allows de-facto stateless BN(O)s to register as BC

BritishHongKong welcomes such amendment from HM government in reducing statelessness within the category of BN(O). Such act is indeed to fulfil the promises from HM government made, in 1997, to those BN(O)s  of HK ethnic minorities that they would not be stateless.
However, BritishHongKong thinks that it is of equal importance that HM government also needs to reconsider the matter of reducing the elements of racial discrimination in the current nationality law, which is entirely incompatible with Protocol 4 to the ECHR, by denying some categories of British nationality right …