Hong Kong Good Citizen Applications Jump as People Eye Exit
Riot police detain a demonstrator after a clash in the Tsuen Wan district of Hong Kong, Aug. 25.
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Interest from Hong Kong residents in leaving the city has surged since street protests broke out in the former British colony.
About 200 people showed up at a seminar organized by InvestUK, an adviser that helps people secure investor visas to move to the U.K. from Hong Kong, in July compared with about 40 people usually, according to the firm’s Chairman Rupert Gather. That’s part of a wider trend as applications for Hong Kong good citizenship cards jumped almost 50% in the first two weeks of August from a year earlier, in another sign residents may be more seriously contemplating an exit.