After Hong Kong’s national security law came into effect on June 30, 2020, how many Hong Kong people have emigrated out of the country, there is no official data, but Hong Kong’s leading securities and current affairs commentator David Webb cited the Hong Kong Immigration Department’s data analysis pointed out that the net number of Hong Kong departures so far shows that more than 130,000 people have left, roughly 1.74% of the total population.
Webb pointed out in a post on his Facebook personal page webb-site that one in every 57 people in Hong Kong has left since July last year. This number is not necessarily all immigrants, the vast majority of immigrants depart through the airport. According to the webb-site, if we use the implementation of the National Security Law as a watershed, excluding the Lunar New Year holidays, before July last year, even if the Hong Kong government has been significantly closed in response to the epidemic, in most days, the airport has more Hong Kong residents entering than leaving. However, since July, the number of Hong Kong residents departing the airport has been higher than the number of those entering the country on most days.
According to David Webb, from July 1 last year to January 8 this year, there were 130,723 net departures from Hong Kong, equivalent to 1.74% of the population. Among them, from December 1 last year to January 8 this year alone, 75,100 people left Hong Kong, equivalent to 1% of the population of Hong Kong.
Since the end of March last year, when the government further closed the border, the peak period for Hong Kong residents departing from the airport was from July to September last year and December last year, many times more than 1,000 people departed on a single day, while from April to June last year, the number of Hong Kong residents departing on a single day has been in the hundreds of digits.
Taiwan and the United Kingdom is the first choice of Hong Kong people to emigrate, according to the Taiwan Land Commission figures, in the first ten months of last year, the number of Hong Kong people approved for residence permits in Taiwan was 7,474, an increase of more than 70% over the same period in 2019. The British government, for its part, has budgeted that 600,000 Hong Kong people will move through BNO status in the next three years.
According to Taiwan United Network, there has been a wave of immigration of Hong Kong people to Taiwan from the anti-Send-China movement in Hong Kong to the enactment of the National People’s Congress (NPC) national security law for Hong Kong in June 2020. Taiwan office in Hong Kong to accept the verification of the paperwork of Hong Kong people on the historical peak, in previous years, only a few hundred or more than a thousand cases in a single month, but last August burst volume 4263 cases. The immigration industry revealed that this wave of immigration boom even the Hong Kong government civil servants are among them.
Application for verification of the various documents is the application of Hong Kong people to apply for immigration to Taiwan’s pre-operation. Statistics in Hong Kong, from January to October last year, the number of paperwork verification 25,541 cases, compared to the same period last year, 15,309 cases increased significantly, of which about 2,000 cases in January, at the end of June last year, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed the National Security Law, the number of verification in July rose to 3,944 cases, August again hit a new high of more than 4,000 cases, September also reached more than 4,000 cases.
Taiwan Land Commission deputy director and spokesman Qiu Chui-cheng said that the verification of documents is for immigration to Taiwan, work and other purposes, which can indeed reflect the boom of Hong Kong people moving to Taiwan.
As for the number of approved residents, by the end of September last year, a total of 5,500 Hong Kong people were approved to stay in Taiwan, which is close to the 5,858 people approved last year, and higher than the annual total of all previous years.
The number of Hong Kong people approved to apply for residency in Taiwan was more than 1,000 per year before 2012; the Umbrella Movement caused a small peak of 4,909 immigrants in 2014, and has remained in the 4,000s in subsequent years. Last year, the anti-China movement reached a new peak of 5,858 people, and this year, the National Security Law came into effect and set a new record.
Some officials pointed out that the application for residence and settlement need to review the time, Hong Kong people to go to Taiwan to stay, immigration figures, is expected this year after 2021 will really emerge.
Hong Kong people migrate to Taiwan may be affected by the political environment in Hong Kong, which can be seen from the professional migrants become the new main force. To have professional and technical skills to apply for immigration to Taiwan on the grounds of Hong Kong people, the past years are only single-digit, after 2017 breakthrough for double-digit, last year, the outbreak of anti-sending in that a move to 492 people, more amazing is the January to September 2020 reached 1,075 people, even more than the number of investment migrants.
An immigration company in charge said that the impact of the anti-sending campaign, last year began to Hong Kong professional immigration to Taiwan increased significantly, including the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University and other anti-sending professors, as well as Hong Kong’s accountants, lawyers, and media journalists, editors, and even public officials, but these civil servants are non-political business.
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