UK May Extend Visa Rights Of BNO Passport Holders

Britain will give greater visa rights to British national overseas (BNO) passport holders from Hong Kong unless Beijing suspends its proposed security laws, foreign minister Dominic Raab said in an interview reported by the BBC on Thursday.

"In relation to BNO passport holders, as you know currently they only have the right to come to the UK for six months. If China continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will change that status," Raab said, according to a tweet from BBC reporter James Landale.

"And we will remove that six-month limit and allow those BNO passport holders to come to the UK and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship." (Reuters)