{"id":84763,"date":"2026-02-11T16:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84763"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:52:36","slug":"north-london-hong-kong-families-uncertain-and-worried-over-possible-citizenship-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/north-london-hong-kong-families-uncertain-and-worried-over-possible-citizenship-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"North London Hong Kong families &#8216;uncertain and worried&#8217; over possible citizenship rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1W7WZU.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A copy of the British National (Overseas) passport, right, with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passport arranged in Hong Kong, China, on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Prime Minister\u00a0Boris Johnson\u00a0estimates about 300,000 Hong Kong citizens will take advantage of a new visa route to leave the former British colony and settle in the U.K., despite nearly three million people being eligible. Photographer: Paul Yeung\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong nationals in Harrow have raised concerns that changes to the Government&#8217;s settlement rules may have \u201cunintended consequences\u201d for them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/north-london-hong-kong-families-uncertain-and-worried-over-possible-citizenship-rule-changes\/ar-AA1W84at?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=698c3be83e6a4b75bf5c14b0c95ed879&amp;ei=127\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hong Kong nationals in Harrow have raised concerns that changes to the Government&#8217;s settlement rules may have \u201cunintended consequences\u201d for them. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/British-passport.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84764,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84763\/revisions\/84764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}