{"id":5046,"date":"2025-05-09T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement-new\/?page_id=5046"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:36:13","slug":"visa-schemes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/visa-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Devon stands with Ukraine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/supporting-ukraine\/\">Devon stands with Ukraine<\/a> and the Local Authority has information and support for those seeking to come to Devon or interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/homesforukraine.campaign.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Homes for Ukraine\u2019<\/a> scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) Welcome Programme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People from Hong Kong and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/types-of-british-nationality\/british-national-overseas\" rel=\"noopener\">British National (Overseas)&nbsp;<\/a>are&nbsp;able to apply for a&nbsp;British National (overseas) visa. This is known as a BNO visa which allows them to live, work and study in the UK. This can be for a period of 30 months (which can be extended by a further 30 months) or a period of 5 years. They can apply from outside or inside the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/british-national-overseas-bno-visa#settlement-and-citizenship\" rel=\"noopener\">apply for settlement<\/a>)&nbsp;and apply for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/british-citizenship\" rel=\"noopener\">British Citizenship<\/a> 12 months after settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon stands with Ukraine Devon stands with Ukraine and the Local Authority has information and support for those seeking to come to Devon or interested in the \u2018Homes for Ukraine\u2019 scheme. Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) Welcome Programme People from Hong Kong and a&nbsp;British National (Overseas)&nbsp;are&nbsp;able to apply for a&nbsp;British National (overseas) visa. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2535,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5046","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 15:10:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5046\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/migration-and-resettlement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}