[Ken_lane]

Hiya There,

My sister is getting married with a Hong Kong residency holding british passport. My sister is permanent residence in Canada. I wanna know how does the immigration of Hong Kong works.. Will my sister get British Passport after marrying.


Thanks

[KnowItAll]

I don't think the UK gov gives passports to dependants.

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/_6_eligibility/6_who_is.asp

Look at the bottom of that page for info on married women and residents.

[PDLM]

Two separate questions here:

British passport - by marriage only after the married couple have lived in the UK for 3 years.

HK Immigration - a dependent visa which may or may not grant the right to work depending on whether the husband has Permanent Residency or simply temporary residency on, say, an Employment Visa.

[discobay]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Two separate questions here:

British passport - by marriage only after the married couple have lived in the UK for 3 years.

Only your sister needs to live in the UK for 3 years.
The kind of British passport is of vital importance here.

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by discobay

Only your sister needs to live in the UK for 3 years.
The kind of British passport is of vital importance here.

Yes - you are right, although these things are always at the discretion of the Immigration people, and if you were married but living in different countries for that length of time I think they would probe quite hard to test that the marriage was genuine and not one of convenience.

As you say, I have assumed in all this that we are talking about a full British Citizen passport holder.

[kirlex]

"Women who are not British and who marry a British man after 1 January 1949 do not automatically acquire British citizenship by virtue of that marriage. This applies regardless of whether she married a man who was a United Kingdom Citizen before 1 January 1983 or a man who is a British Citizen after 31 December 1982."

Seems a bit sexist no? So if the roles are reversed then the man could acquire citizenship by marriage?

[PDLM]

Er, no. I don't know where you learned your logic, but you should get your money back.

As far as I know a man has never been able to acquire UK citizenship by marriage.

[kirlex]

It was simple copy-and-paste the UK passport website posted by KIA. Just found it odd that they wrote that.

And for the record, it used to be that a child could only obtain citizenship if FATHER was british, but that changed to either spouse. So double standards can exist.

[Ken_lane]

thanks very much u r help guys... Immigration rules are little vague on his topic.. :s

[EUChinese]

Originally Posted by Ken_lane

Hiya There,

My sister is getting married with a Hong Kong residency holding british passport. My sister is permanent residence in Canada. I wanna know how does the immigration of Hong Kong works.. Will my sister get British Passport after marrying.


Thanks

I am assuming you are talking about the British Passport for the British, not the HK BNO.

You will not be granted a UK passport automatically based on your marriage, - I don't exactly remember the whole procedure, somthing like you can apply for a visa to stay in the UK, after 1 year if your marrage is still vaild and remain in the UK then you can apply for ILR (Indefinite leave to remain which is PR), then after 2-3 years if you are still in the UK (dont remember) then you can apply for a UK passport.