"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" > wrote in message
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> "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.
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> 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
>
That's the program and it was written up here in the context of Hong Kong
just before the hand over as many HK people were getting nervous. The
impression by the article was one in which a person can buy Canadian
citizenship or legal status.

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