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Politics● Low16m ago · Nov 9, 2026, 12:30 AM

Hong Kong VTC courses touted as short cut to residency for babies of mainland mothers

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · East Asia

Agencies are promoting Vocational Training Council (VTC) courses to pregnant women in mainland China, touting packages cheaper than HK$100,000 (US$12,600) including commission as the lowest-cost route for the women to secure Hong Kong passports for their newborns, the South China Morning Post has found. The path would enable their children to get into top-tier mainland universities more easily and could even secure them a job as a civil servant in the future, the agencies claimed. But critics...

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