UK to Plan Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents if Chinese Regime Pursues Security Bill

US, UK, Australia, and Canada also issued a joint statement reprimanding Beijing’s move

Riot police detain a group of people during a protest in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong as the city's legislature debates over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem on May 27, 2020. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The British government said on Thursday it will grant greater visa rights to British national overseas (BNO) passport holders from Hong Kong unless the Chinese regime suspends its so-called “national security” legislation on Hong Kong.

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, said Thursday that if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t scrap the national security legislation which was passed by China’s rubber-stamp legislature in the afternoon on May 28, BNO passport holders in Hong Kong would be allowed to stay in Britain for 12 months instead of the current six.