{"id":9328,"date":"2022-04-24T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2022-04-24T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T18:47:12","slug":"bno-scheme-expansion-a-damp-squib-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=9328","title":{"rendered":"BNO scheme expansion a damp squib: Foreign Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1635814_1_L_20220225123359.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s office in Hong Kong on Friday strongly condemned and firmly rejected the UK government&rsquo;s decision to expand the so-called &ldquo;lifeboat scheme&rdquo; that provides a route to British&hellip;<br \/>The Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s office in Hong Kong on Friday strongly condemned and firmly rejected the UK government&rsquo;s decision to expand the so-called &ldquo;lifeboat scheme&rdquo; that provides a route to British citizenship for younger Hongkongers.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme, which opened a year ago, is currently only available to British National (Overseas) passport holders born before the handover in 1997&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1635814-20220225.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65292;&#35814;&#32454;&#28857;&#20987;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s office in Hong Kong on Fri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}