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The British National (Overseas) passport, commonly referred to as the BN(O) passport, is a British passport for people with British National (Overseas) status. BN(O) status was created in 1987 after the enactment of Hong Kong Act 1985, [1] whose holders are permanent residents of Hong Kong who were British Overseas Territories citizens (formerly British Dependent Territories citizens) until 30 ...
Applicant must not have any passports other than the Hong Kong passport, the Macao passport or the British National (Overseas) passport. Additionally, if the applicant was born in the Chinese mainland, he/she must prove renunciation of Mainland Chinese citizenship and household registration by providing one the following documents:
Visa requirements for British Nationals (Overseas) are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states and territories placed on British National (Overseas) passport holders. Several million people, the vast majority with a Hong Kong connection, hold this passport.
The majority are issued to citizens of the People's Republic of China who have migrated to Hong Kong on a One-way Permit, have lost their mainland hukou thus are unable to obtain a PRC passport, but have not resided in Hong Kong for the 7 years required to be eligible for a HKSAR passport.
In 1999, it was reported that a Hong Kong resident, who had travelled to India on his BN(O) passport had been wrongly detained for 23 days because his BN(O) passport was suspected by Indian officials to be fake and was certified as a forgery by the British High Commission [citation needed] in Bombay without seeking verification from the ...
2 Application for Renewal. 3 Short introduction. 1 comment. 4 Guidance Notes BNO and BDTC Application, overseas edition. 5 Visa free access for BN(O) passport. Toggle ...
Story at a glance Renewing your passport is a lengthy and oftentimes tedious process. A new program run by the U.S. Department of State hopes to simplify the process, by allowing citizens to ...
British National (Overseas), abbreviated as BN(O), is a class of British nationality associated with the former colony of Hong Kong. The status was acquired through voluntary registration by individuals with a connection to the territory who had been British Dependent Territories citizens (BDTCs) before the handover to China in 1997.