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Senior Tories call on Home Office to stop unfairly excluding young Hong Kong nationals
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Senior Tories call on Home Office to stop unfairly excluding young Hong Kong nationals

Senior Tory MPs are calling on the Home Office to extend the UK’s settlement route for Hong Kong nationals to include swathes of young people who are currently unfairly excluded. An amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill, tabled this week by Conservative MP Damian Green and supported by Tom Tugendhat and 11 other Tory MPs, would enable Hong Kongers with at least one parent who is a BNO citizen to apply for a UK visa. It comes after The Independent revealed last month that Young Hong Kongers who fled police brutality are languishing in the UK asylum system because they are not able to benefit from the British National Overseas (BNO) scheme due to their age. The scheme, which is projected to receive around 422,000 applications from Hong Kong nationals in its first four years, req...