Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China

South Asians applying for Chinese nationality

What about the identity of South Asians, especially those who have taken roots in Hong Kong and calling Hong Kong home? People were speculating the future of after-1997 Hong Kong after China has resumed the sovereignty; meanwhile, South Asians were applying for "Chinese naturalization".

According to the HKSAR press release dated on May 18, 2005, since the handover, the Immigration Department has received 4,372 applications for Chinese naturalisation. It said it has completed processing 3,999 applications and 95% of them were approved.The largest single category of applicants were Indonesians of 1735, followed by 833 Pakistanis , 552 Indians and 547 Vietnamese. It was claimed that these nationalities also comprised a large group of approved applicants. However, the exact success rate of these applications by ethnicity is not revealed by the Immigration Department.

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