The 2021 census recorded 117,714 Hong Kong-born people resident in England, 3,715 in Wales and 1,982 in Northern Ireland. Hong Kongers who migrated to the UK under the BN(O) pathway introduced in 2020 are generally older and higher-educated than other immigrants to the UK.
Over 144,000 Hongkongers move to UK in 2 years since launch of BNO visa scheme. The UK Home Office said it was “proud” to have welcomed 144,500 Hongkongers under the emigration path that was launched after Beijing imposed the national security law on the city in June 2020.
Between 2020 and 2022, there were 184,916 asylum applications to the UK, of which only 259 came from Hongkongers. Those who choose to come to the UK asking for asylum usually do so because they have no alternative, or no idea what they are getting themselves into.
According to the 2021 Census, the Chinese ethnic group in England and Wales numbered 445,646, or 0.7% of the population. British Chinese live in every major British city, most notably including Greater London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Sheffield.
As a result of the Chinese Government's imposition of new 'national security' laws and the British Governments policy shift on BN(O) visas, many people are choosing to emigrate to the UK from Hong Kong.
The 2021 census recorded 117,714 Hong Kong-born people resident in England, 3,715 in Wales and 1,982 in Northern Ireland. Hong Kongers who migrated to the UK under the BN(O) pathway introduced in 2020 are generally older and higher-educated than other immigrants to the UK.
153,708 BN(O) Hong Kong visas have been granted as of the end of December 2022, 129,415 of which were granted to those out of country (105,200 people are known to have arrived in the UK following an out of country grant)
At the 2021 census, 1,390,637 Australian residents identified themselves as having Chinese ancestry, accounting for 5.5% of the total population.
Chinatown, Manchester
After London, Manchester is home to the largest Chinatown in the UK.
Data published recently by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) from the Census 2021 has found the local Chinese population in Tower Hamlets is the third highest proportion in England and Wales, behind the City of London and Cambridge.
More than 4300 Hong Kong citizens became Australian permanent migrants in the 2021 financial year, up from 1391 the previous year.
Was Hong Kong a colony? Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, with the exception of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945.
Among the 33,733 citizens of the United Kingdom living in Hong Kong, 19,405 are of some European ethnicity, 6,893 are Chinese, 2,337 are Indian, 1,047 are Pakistani, 829 are Nepalese, 273 are other Asians, 227 are Filipino, 98 are Thai, 40 are Japanese, and 40 are Indonesian.
UK trade in goods with China
In 2021, the UK imported £63.6 billion of goods from China. This accounted for 13.3% of all goods imports, making China our largest importing partner. There were £18.8 billion of goods exports to China (5.8% of all goods exports), making China our sixth-largest exporting partner.
British overseas territories citizens from Hong Kong who did not register as British nationals (overseas) and had no other nationality or citizenship on 30 June 1997 became British overseas citizens on 1 July 1997. If you're not already a British national (overseas), you cannot apply to become one.
What is the max stay for visits to the UK that is enforced for this visa? Currently, the United Kingdom allows a max stay of 180 days in Total for the standard visitor visa for citizens of China.
The Chinatown in Paris located in the 13th arrondissement is the largest in Europe.
Other UK Chinatowns are found in the English cities of Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds (though not official) and Newcastle, the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Welsh capital Cardiff and a growing population of Chinese immigrants are present in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
There are 120,250 Chinese people in London, comprising 1.5% of the city's population.
Demographics. There were 247,770 people identifying as being part of the Chinese ethnic group at the 2018 New Zealand census, making up 5.3% of New Zealand's population. This is an increase of 76,359 people (44.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 100,200 people (67.9%) since the 2006 census.
At the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: English (21.8%) Australian (20.4%) Chinese (11.6%)
As a result, Indians now account for 2.8% of the population, compared with China's 2.3%, while Britons lead with 3.8%. Yet reflecting the distortions of the pandemic, the proportion of Australia's population who are overseas-born actually edged down to 29.1% in 2021 from 29.8% a year earlier.
Refugees - major hosting countries worldwide as of 2022
In mid-2022, Turkey was the largest refugee-hosting country in the world. According to data available by the The UN Refugee Agency there were around 3.7 million refugees in Turkey. Germany was second with around 2.2 million.
More than half a million Hong Kong residents have received British National (Overseas) passports since 2019, with about 60 per cent of the travel documents approved for issue in 2020, when the UK announced a new pathway to citizenship scheme.
Nationality of asylum seekers and refugees
In 2021, 42% of applicants were nationals of Middle Eastern countries, and 23% were nationals of African countries. This pattern shifted in 2022 with the largest nationality groups being Asian countries (31% of applicants) and European countries (24% of applicants).