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Crucial Hong Kong Provisions in the America COMPETES Act of 2022

  • Provide Safe Haven Policies for Hongkongers

    - Provides Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and refugee status for qualifying Hong Kong residents for 18 months.

    - Provides special immigrant status admission for certain priority highly-skilled Hong Kong residents, up to 5,000 per year for five fiscal years.

    - Stipulates that Hong Kong will continue to be considered a foreign state separate and apart from the PRC for purposes of the numerical limitations on immigrant visas.
  • Provide Funding and Programs to support HK's Democracy

    - Authorizes $10 million for the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to promote democracy in Hong Kong.

    - Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish a Hong Kong Internet Freedom Program to develop a strategy to bolster internet resiliency and online access in Hong Kong.

    - Authorizes the President of the Open Technology Fund to establish a Hong Kong Internet Freedom Program.

    - Authorizes $10 million to the Open Technology Fund and $20 million to the DRL’s Office of Internet Freedom Programs.
  • Reporting Requirements on Hong Kong

    - Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with other federal agencies, to submit a report detailing the number of Hong Kong residents who have applied for U.S. visas or immigration benefits; the number of approvals, denials, or rejections of applicants for visas or immigration benefits; the number of pending refugee and asylum applications for Hong Kong residents, and the length of time and reason for which such applications have been pending. 

    - Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to report on refugee and asylum related matters related to Hong Kong applications, average wait-times, approvals, referrals, denials, and refugee circuit rides to interview populations that would include those from Hong Kong.
Learn more about COMPETES Act on Congress.gov.