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Young Hong Kong nationals who have fled police brutality in their country are “languishing” in the UK asylum system because they are arbitrarily excluded from a Home Office settlement route due to their age.Ministers are facing calls to amend the rules around the British National Overseas (BNO) scheme, designed to offer a path to citizenship for Hong Kongers in the wake of Beijing ’s national security law being imposed last year, after it emerged people under the age of 24 cannot benefit from it because they do not hold BNO passports, which were issued in 1997.Teenagers and young people from...
