Chinese Migrants Allowed to Stay in Hong Kong

Migrants from mainland China can stay in Hong Kong while they fight a ruling that requires them to go home and await Hong Kong’s permission to establish residency, a trial court ruled Monday.

Eighteen people have filed a lawsuit saying that they should be allowed to stay in the territory after its highest court ruled last month that anyone with at least one Hong Kong parent has the right to live here.

But the Court of Final Appeal also said people who were living illegally in Hong Kong must first go back to China and undergo screening by Hong Kong immigration authorities.

That has angered migrants already in Hong Kong, who say the ruling could result in small children being deported and separated from their Hong Kong families while bureaucrats decide their fate.