Immigration In Bite-Sized Chunks

Is The Hong Kong Immigration Department Website Actually Any Use To Visa Applicants?

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The Hong Kong Immigration Department website is good for a few things but not very good at all where it counts – namely, indicting to you your chances of success in getting your Hong Kong residence visa application approved. You see, immigration policy in Hong Kong is governed by highly confidential guidelines which the general […]

What Does It Take To Get A Hong Kong Investment Visa Approved?

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Securing an approval for an investment visa is one of the hardest challenges there is in the realm of Hong Kong immigration practice. Your mission is to pass the approvability test and demonstrate definitively to the Hong Kong Immigration Department that you can make a substantial contribution to the economy of Hong Kong as a […]

What’s The Story When You Hold A Hong Kong Work Visa And Face Redundancy?

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Losing your job in Hong Kong can affect your employment visa status in the HKSAR. This brief video outlines the legal implications if you find yourself in this situation. The Hong Kong Immigration Department are highly sympathetic to foreign nationals who find themselves with an employment visa sponsored by an employer that has had to […]

How Does Hong Kong Right Of Abode Downgrade To The Right To Land Materialize And What Are The Immigration Implications Of This?

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How Does Hong Kong Right Of Abode Downgrade To The Right To Land Materialize And What Are The Immigration Implications Of This? First Published January 17, 2013 If you are a foreign national permanent resident of Hong Kong you will hold a permanent identity card and, as a result, will possess the Rolls Royce immigration […]

How To Secure Your Hong Kong Employment Visa | Employer Reservations | What Can You Do?

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Your Employer Has No Plans To Help You Secure Your Hong Kong Employment Visa? Persuading & Educating Hong Kong Employers On How The Employment Visa Sponsorship Process Works The Problem Employer to help secure your Hong Kong employment visa? For reasons often known only to themselves, some Hong Kong employers hold the belief that the […]

Does A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Need An Extensive Business Plan?

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Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Need An Extensive Business Plan – Say 60 Pages Long? Not massively so. In fact you can get away without one altogether if writing such a document doesn’t fall readily within your existing skill set. There are other ways to skin this particular cat … Does A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa […]

The 5 Key Factors Which Impact On Your Eligibility For A Hong Kong Employment Visa

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Your Eligibility For A Hong Kong Employment Visa? The 5 Factors  In Play For Eligibility For A Hong Kong Employment Visa 1 –  You need a credible sponsor – this means, an established company which has been established for more than 2 years and which currently employs local staff, has offices and manifestly operates commercially […]

The Foibles of Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Applications That Only Experience Can Fully Appreciate

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Foibles of Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Applications First Published April 29, 2013 – Updated April 3, 2023 (10 years on – somethings never change ….) Hong Kong immigration & visa applications: both the Hong Kong Visa Handbook and the accompanying updates posted daily on the Hong Kong Visa Geeza Blog along with the DIY […]

Hong Kong PR After 7 Years

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Hong Kong PR After 7 Years? What does it take to qualify for Hong Kong PR after 7 years? Are you a foreign national having arrived in Hong Kong legally and have held a residence visa here back to back with no gaps for a full seven years? If so, you might be in the hunt […]

Hong Kong Visa Information In Less Than 60 Seconds

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From my new YouTube Shorts channel. Perhaps you can Subscribe please? Once this channel gets to 100 Subscribers, I can name it officially the Visa Geeza channel! I have historically never given much thought to YouTube but in recent times have figured out how it really works to help connect with folks who need answers […]