Immigration to Hong Kong is the process by which people migrate to the Chinese special administrative region of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

for the purpose of residing there. The region has its own Hong Kong immigration policy governing how such migration may be carried, including for those immigrating from

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, During the First Opium War, Hong Kong was initially ceded to the British by the Qing Empire, in the

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. However, both countries were dissatisfied and did not ratify the agreement.. After more than a year of further hostilities, Hong Kong Island was formally ceded to the

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in the 1842

Treaty of Nanking The Treaty of Nanjing was the peace treaty which ended the First Opium War (1839–1842) between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later termed the Unequal Treaties. In the ...

. From 1898 to 1997, Hong Kong was under a 99-year lease to the

, and within this period there was a refugee wave from the People's Republic of China to British Hong Kong, primarily between 1949 and 1979.

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Immigration law in Hong Kong {{Hong Kong-stub

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