US extends safe haven program for Hong Kong residents

The Biden administration will continue to approve safe house to specific Hong Kong homeowners, extending a program to enable them to stay in the United States without worry of deportation for another 2 years.

President Joe Biden on Thursday provided a memorandum “directing an extension and growth of the deferment of elimination of specific Hong Kong homeowners who exist in the United States.”.

The relocation comes less than 2 weeks prior to the present Deferred Imposed Departure was set to end. It follows comparable actions by Canada, the UK, and Australia.

In 2020, a repressive nationwide security law was presented in Hong Kong that criminalized acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to threaten nationwide security– with an optimal sentence of life jail time for all 4.

State Department principal deputy representative Vedant Patel stated the choice “was made required by Beijing and Hong Kong authorities’ continued and duplicated attacks on the safeguarded rights and liberties treasured by individuals in Hong Kong.”.

” There are engaging diplomacy factors to extend Deferred Imposed Departure (DED) for an extra duration for those homeowners of Hong Kong currently living in the United States who were under a grant of DED till February 5, 2023, in addition to to postpone enforced departure for other Hong Kong homeowners who showed up in the United States subsequent to the preliminary grant of DED,” Biden composed in the memo. “The United States is devoted to a diplomacy that unifies our democratic worths with our diplomacy objectives, which is fixated the defense of democracy and the promo of human rights worldwide.”.

” Using safe house for Hong Kong homeowners who have actually been denied of their ensured liberties in Hong Kong advances United States interests in the area,” the president composed. “The United States will continue to persevere in our assistance of individuals in Hong Kong.”.