Travel Requirements: Hong Kong

(asked on 28th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to issue travel documents to Hong Kong residents who were born after 1997 and hold a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport so they do not have to step onto Chinese consulate grounds to renew their documentation.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 2nd November 2022

The Home Office does not have plans to issue travel documents to children of parents on the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) route or to Hong Kong residents born after 1997 who hold a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passport.

Individuals arriving in the UK must produce a valid passport with a photograph or some other document which satisfactorily establishes their identity and nationality, if required to do so by a Border Force officer. Individuals who wish to travel outside the UK will need to comply with the entry requirements of the country they wish to enter, which may require a valid travel document to establish their identity and nationality.

It remains the case that those who hold a HKSAR passport and wish to travel to or from the UK will need to renew that passport or arrange for alternative documentation. The UK cannot assist with the renewal of passports of other nationalities.

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