Aiming at Britain to provide priority services for Hong Kong citizens to apply for British (overseas) passports (BNO passports), the Chinese embassy in the UK condemned the British manipulation of BNO, saying that some Hong Kong people were embarrassed and prepared for their livelihoods and prepared for their livelihoods.Discrimination.
According to the WeChat public account of the "Chinese Embassy in the UK" on Wednesday (August 16), a Chinese embassy spokesman in the UK responded to the British adjustment of the BNO visa policy in the form of a reporter.
The spokesman criticized the British move not to protect the Hong Kong people, but to "discredit and disaster Hong Kong", and it was never possible to succeed.
The spokesman said: "Some of the bewilders of Hong Kong people left their hometowns, and their livelihoods were embarrassed after arriving in the UK.Qing reality and general trend, "stop hypocritical performance, stop misleading Hong Kong people, and stop interfered in China's internal affairs."
After the Hong Kong National Security Law was implemented in Hong Kong in 2020, the British government announced the next year that the British national (overseas) passport (BNO passport) new regulations came into effect.Identity can apply for British nationality in the following year.
The British government announced on Monday (August 14) that it will provide fast services for Hong Kong people's application for BNO passports from the same day. Applicants can cost £ 500 (about S $ 862) within five working days.Apply for a BNO passport.
But some Hong Kong media once said that Hong Kong people who moved to Britain through the BNO passport cannot enjoy the benefits of local citizens, which is not only affected by the high domestic prices in the United Kingdom, but Hong Kong professionals can only be temporarily engaged in low in the United Kingdom.Skills work has become a "second -class citizen."
In this regard, Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also criticized, "Some of the bewilders of Hong Kong people leave their hometown, but they have become the" second -class citizen 'after arriving in the UK.Is it a 'protection' Hong Kong person or a disaster in Hong Kong. I believe everyone can see clearly. "