City Hall to use more than £900,000 grant to help them settle in London, including advice on housing, education and employment. The capital is expected to welcome a large proportion of the projected 153,000 new arrivals from Hong Kong to the UK this year. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today offered a warm welcome and a message of. 'Hong Kong is strange to me now': how five refugees are finding their new lives in Britain More than 88,000 Hongkongers have come to the UK under a new visa scheme after a harsh crackdown. 
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As a result, many Hong Kongers no longer feel safe, and the UK Home Office estimates that anywhere between 9,000 and 1,050,000 million could move to Britain within the next five years (with a number between 258,000 and 322,400 being most likely). Yet while the UK's new visa scheme could have as great an impact as Windrush and freedom of. UK Welcomes Refugees mission is to campaign for a real and transparent Safe and Legal Route for refugees to take when seeking sanctuary in the United Kingdom. This is done by actively supporting Community Sponsorship of Refugees so that UK communities can play an active role in the welcome and resettlement of refugees.
The UK government introduced the new visa in January as it believes China is undermining Hong Kong's rights and freedoms. It is estimated about 300,000 people will take up the offer over the. Indeed, since 2015 the UK has directly resettled more people than any other country in Europe. And since 2005, the total number resettled is 360,000, with about two-thirds of this number coming either from Ukraine or Hong Kong. This includes more than 130,000 refugees granted entry from Ukraine in 2022. In light of this it is remarkable that. 
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Hong Kong BN (O) status holders and their families who settle in the United Kingdom will receive £43 million dedicated support package 12 welcome hubs will help families and individuals. Hong Kong Welcome Hub. Supported by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, The London Hong Kong Welcome Programme enables Hong Kong Londoners to feel a part of London's social and cultural fabric. The programme has been built from a strong evidence base, with the commissioning of research that surveyed Hongkongers and ran.
Hong Kong UK Welcome Programme - summary An immigration route opened on 31 January 2021, providing British National (Overseas) ( BN (O)) status holders from Hong Kong and their eligible. A Great British Welcome. A Great British Welcome is a series of stories profiling people across the UK who are supporting refugees. Across the United Kingdom, people are opening their hearts and lives to refugees and saying 'welcome' in a range of innovative ways. Some are supporting refugees to access education and housing, or restart. 
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Britain ready to welcome Hong Kong refugees BORIS JOHNSON has a secret plan to allow hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens to come to Britain if China clamps down further on the former. Britain has called the program a humanitarian, post-colonial responsibility after a crackdown in Hong Kong by the Chinese government, saying that Beijing is violating the terms of a handover.
Hong Kong Watch expresses immense sadness at the death of Neil Jameson and offers our deepest condolences to his wife and family. Neil Jameson CBE was the Director of UK Welcomes Refugees, where he worked tirelessly on community organising projects to welcome Hong Kongers, Afghans, Ukrainians - and others fleeing war, persecution and oppression - into British society. RT @frances_hui: In the past few yrs, many democratic allies in the world, like the UK & Canada, have provided programs to support Hong Kong people. Right now the US continues to lag behind on equivalent program, despite being known for accepting more refugees than other country in the world. 15/ 28 Apr 2023 15:34:42 
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'Welcome Hong Kongers Project' (WHKP) 《迎接香港人計劃》 is a diverse civil society group organising under the umbrella of UK Welcomes Refugees. We are neutral and non partisan politically and our vision is of a more welcoming world for all. We have come together in response to the UK Government's generous decision to welcome Hong Kong BN(O) passport holders, and the anticipated. Britain should welcome Hongkongers, but not the 'good migrant' narrative Jeevan Vasagar The idea that Hong Kong migration will give the UK an entrepreneurial rocket boost is based on.
