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. Updating…
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
We are indeed grateful to Mr Steve Chan for the time he spent on interviewing BritishHongKong staff and the article being fairly accurate of the organisation. However, there may be confusion about the main aim of BritishHongKong in the article, which is to fight for both full British and European Citizenship, not only the [...]
Mr. Robin Tso - Founder & Executive Director Mr. Tuk Chan - Deputy Director Mr. Noble Sham – Hong Kong Representative Ms Wendy Wong – Europe Representative Email: info@BritishHongKong.com or use our contact form Phone us • 01312081008 UK • 81913221 Hong Kong • 00441312081008 (calls from outside HK and the UK) Do leave a message if [...]
As many of you may be aware, the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill which is currently being debated at the moment in the House of Lord, may have some amendments which could restore the rights to British Nationals (Overseas). However, as they Bill is still in its early stages and is being debated in the [...]
Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill I am deeply concerned about the racial discrimination and current lack of human rights in the UK’s nationality laws. I sincerely hope that you will consider the following points in the upcoming Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill and to take the necessary actions [...]
As some of you may have known about the recent debate on Citizenship and questions concerning BN(O), we have, on one hand, been encouraged by the overwhelming support from different Lords and MPs across the all parties. However, the UK government, on the other hand, has been using various excuses to defend her current nationality [...]