Petition · past parliament

Supplement the international travel rules coming into effect on 4 October 2021

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Recognise in-bound travellers from Hong Kong (currently on the green-list) who have been fully vaccinated with full course of Pfizer BioNTech for at least 14 days as "fully vaccinated travellers from rest of the world" in the international travel rules coming into effect on 4 October 2021.
Currently, travellers from Hong Kong to UK with negative pre-flight PCR test and passenger locator form (i.e. day-2 test booked) do not need to quarantine. Many of them are fully vaccinated with Pfizer BioNTech. One stated reason of UK gov for the rule change is to enable people to return from half-term breaks. By leaving out HK from the list of recognised countries the rules unjustifiably prejudice HK parents visiting their children for half-term, and children returning from holidays in HK.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

17 Sep 2021 Petition opened for signatures
23 Sep 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 23 Sep 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.