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Chinese nationals with territorial right of abode are eligible to hold Macao Special Administrative Region passports, stand for office in the Legislative Assembly, and can serve as principal officials of the government. Those who additionally do not possess right of abode in foreign countries are eligible for election as Chief Executive. [8]
The British and Chinese governments entered negotiations over the future of Hong Kong in the early 1980s and agreed on the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984. [13] The basic principles for the right of abode are set as part of this treaty [14] and further defined in the Hong Kong Basic Law, [15] which encompass the right to land with the added entitlement that a bearer cannot be deported.
The right of abode is an individual's freedom from immigration control in a particular country.A person who has the right of abode in a country does not need permission from the government to enter the country and can live and work there without restriction, and is immune from removal and deportation (unless the right of abode has been revoked).
Since the 2001 Chong Fung Yuen “Right of abode” case, babies born in Hong Kong to mainland women are entitled the right of abode in Hong Kong. Favoured with the 2003 Individual Visit Scheme, a large number of mainland pregnant women came to Hong Kong to give birth for their children's right of residence. Accordingly, the number of cross ...
Special interpretation of the Nationality Law, while not recognising dual nationality, has allowed Chinese citizens to keep their foreign "right of abode" and use travel documents issued by the foreign country. However, such travel documents cannot be used to travel to mainland China and persons concerned must use Home Return Permit.
Naturalized citizens of the People's Republic of China (1 C, 49 P) P. ... Right of abode in Hong Kong; Right of abode in Macau This page was ...
This ruling immediately granted up to 300,000 people in mainland China the right of abode in Hong Kong, and it was estimated that within the next ten years, about 1.6 million people in mainland China would become eligible for right of abode in Hong Kong. [clarification needed]
It regulates the immigration issues of Hong Kong, such as Right of Abode, immigration control and enforcement of illegal immigration by Immigration Department. Introduced in 1971 (as Cap 55), it replaced a number of earlier ordinances that dealt with immigration control from China into Hong Kong: Passport Ordinance 1923