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 …
Hong Kong Economic Journal
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 right of abode in the UK.
BritishHongKong is a registered human rights organisation in Scotland [SC342073], with a forum and an official website as means to promote our work.
Mr. Robin Tso - Founder & Executive Director
Mr. Tuk Chan - Deputy Director
Mr. Noble Sham – Hong Kong Representative
Ms Wendy Wong – Europe Representative
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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 House of Lords, much more will need to be done to ensure that our rights will be restored.