"Robert" > wrote in message
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> Canada offered citizenship to Hong Kong nationals who had $100,000 at hand
> for Canadian citizenship right after the turnover to China.

That's news to me. I know of many Hong Kong nationals who came to Canada
through the Immigrant Investor or Business Entrepreneur programs but those
programs were not limited to Hong Kong nationals. Anyone with the required
amount of money (IIRC, the amounts differed depending on which programme you
applied for) who was accepted received *permanent residency* and after the
standard number of years (used to be 5, might be 3 now) could apply for
Canadian citizenship. These programs have been around since 1986 at least,
and may have existed in a different form earlier (I had HK friends who
immigrated in 1983 but I never discussed how their parents applied to come
to Canada).

rona

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