Khin Yi

{{Short description|Burmese politician}}

{{expand Burmese|ခင်ရီ}}

{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Khin Yi}}

{{Infobox minister

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Khin Yi

| honorific-suffix =

| native_name = ခင်ရီ

| native_name_lang = my

| image = U-Khin-Yi.gif

| alt =

| caption = Khin Yi in 2017

| order1 = Minister of Immigration and Population

| term_start1 = 1 August 2021{{Cite news |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/212823|title=နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေး ကော်မတီကို အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အဖြစ် ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း|language=my}}

| term_end1 = 19 August 2022

| predecessor1 = Myint Kyaing

| successor1 = Myint Kyaing

| president1 = Myint Swe (acting)

| 1blankname1 = Prime Minister

| 1namedata1 = Min Aung Hlaing

| term_start2 = 30 March 2011

| term_end2 = 12 August 2015{{cite web | url=http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/politics/top-ministers-resign | title=Top ministers resign | publisher=Eleven | date=13 August 2015 | accessdate=13 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924000234/http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/politics/top-ministers-resign | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead }}

| predecessor2 = Mg Oo

| president2 = Thein Sein

| successor2 = Ko Ko

| order3 = Chief of the

| office3 = Myanmar Police Force

| term_start3 = 30 April 2002

| term_end3 = 30 March 2011

| predecessor3 = Soe Win

| successor3 = Zaw Win

| office = Chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party

| term_start = 12 September 2022
{{small|Acting: 12 September 2022 – 5 October 2022}}

| term_end =

| predecessor = Than Htay

| successor =

| 1blankname = Vice Chairman

| 1namedata = Myat Hein

| office4 = Vice Chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party

| alongside4 = Myat Hein

| term_start4 = 31 December 2019

| term_end4 = 5 October 2022

| 1blankname4 = Chairman

| 1namedata4 = Than Htay

| party = Union Solidarity and Development Party

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|12|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Myaungmya, Burma

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| nationality = Burmese

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| spouse = Khin May Soe

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| alma_mater = Defense Service Acedamy

| allegiance = Myanmar

| branch = Myanmar Army

| serviceyears = –2010

| rank = 15px Brigadier General

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Khin Yi ({{langx|my|ခင်ရီ}}) is a Burmese politician who served as Minister of Immigration and Population from March 2011 to August 2015 and again from August 2021 to August 2022 as well as{{cite journal|last=Kudo|first=Toshihiro|date=26 July 2011|title=New Government in Myanmar: Profiles of Ministers|publisher=Institute of Developing Economies - Japan External Trade Organization|url=http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Asia/20110726.html}} Chief of the Myanmar Police Force from April 2002 to March 2011. He has served as Chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in acting capacity from September{{cite web|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-s-army-backed-party-to-replace-chief-with-general-s-ally|title=Myanmar's army-backed party to replace chief with general's ally|website=Nikkei Asia|date=23 September 2022|access-date=6 October 2022}} to October 2022 and official capacity since October 2022 as well as Vice Chairman of the party from December 2019 to his official promotion to the party chairmanship in October 2022. He is widely regarded as a close ally of Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council, the Prime Minister and the Commander-in-chief of Defence Services.{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2022/10/05/myanmar-military-linked-party-names-junta-chiefs-ally-as-leader|title=Myanmar military-linked party names junta chief's ally as leader|website=The Star|date=5 October 2022|access-date=5 October 2022}}