After the 2019 “Anti-China” campaign in Hong Kong, coupled with the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong on June 30 last year, a wave of migration of Hong Kong people has begun. Although the government has not made official statistics on immigration figures, independent stock commentator David Webb has consolidated the statistics of the Hong Kong Immigration Department, showing that since July 1 last year, a total of 446,000 Hong Kong residents have departed from Hong Kong, even though customs closures and quarantines have been imposed around the world due to the epidemic, of which 203,000 have left Hong Kong via our airport, and the net number of Hong Kong departures during the period reached The net number of departures during this period was 115,000.
David Webb’s personal website, Webb-site, which he created, uses data published by the Immigration Department since January 24 of last year to count the number of people (including Hong Kong residents and visitors) entering and leaving Hong Kong at various air, land and sea control points on a daily basis. The data shows that between July 1, 2020 and January 8, 2021, the number of Hong Kong resident arrivals is about 330,000, while the number of departures is about 446,000, i.e. the net number of Hong Kong resident departures reaches 115,000, accounting for about 1.5% of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million population.
The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, etc., have successively relaxed the immigration threshold to Hong Kong people, BNO visa on January 31 this year even began to accept applications. Data show that between July 1, 2020 and January 8, 2021, 203,000 Hong Kong residents will leave Hong Kong via our airport, while the number of arrivals will be 148,000, which means a net departure of about 55,000 Hong Kong residents. Due to the severe quarantine and customs closure measures imposed on travelers around the world during this period, it is believed that the reason behind the insistence of these Hong Kong people to leave by air during this period is worth pondering.
In fact, the number of applications for the Certificate of Good Citizenship (Certificate of No Criminal Record), which is essential for immigrants, has also increased sharply. The police announced the figures, as of November last year, received as many as 26,715 applications for the Good Citizen Certificate; 2019 year is 33,252 people. This afternoon, the reporter tried to register online, the police web page shows that the next 30 days reservation quota has been full, the earliest to next month 9 to have a seat.
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