bill fuggle: Bill Fuggle, Sydney-based partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie, said there had been a rise in applicants for the A 5 million SIV program, according to The Japan Times. What I am hearing from my clients is there definitely has been an uptick in the number of SIV applications from Hong Kong, Fuggle said. The New South Wales state migration department has noticed a significant increase in applications from Hong Kong in recent months, it said in a letter to agents this week, and seen by Reuters. ; The interest has coincided with the beginning of the current unrest in Hong Kong, the department said, referring to a 5 million Australian dollar 3.4 million Significant Investor Visa SIV program that provides direct residency to applicants. Anybody who can make an alternate plan is trying to do so. The unrest has been fueled by broader worries about what many say has been an erosion of freedoms guaranteed under the one country, two systems formula put in place when Hong Kong returned to China in 1997. Protests in the former British colony erupted in early June over a now-suspended bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial.
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