Settlement On The Hong Kong BN(O) Visa Route

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route has attracted a great amount of attention over the past year. According to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong, 88,000 people had applied for visas under the scheme. Of those applications, 76,176 visas have been granted. According to a further study conducted by the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, there is considerable potential demand for the British National (Overseas) visa beyond the current number of people who have already applied. The latest HKBN(O) survey conducted by the Home Office was published in January 2022; this revealed that 96% of the interviewees who hold BN(O) visas intend to stay in the UK either indefinitely or at least longer than the duration of their current visa.