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How To Apply For A Hong Kong Identity Card – Updated March 2023 – Waiting Times A Nightmare

Posted in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Feature Article, Investment Visas, Musing, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

ImmD publish a useful series of video on their YouTube channel. The 2 videos which follow teach you how to go about applying for a Hong Kong Identity card. These links have now been updated as of March 2023. The post today is topical as the Territory-Wide Smart ID Card Replacement Exercise came to an […]

All About Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship

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All About Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship There is a great deal of confusion about Hong Kong employment visa sponsorship and this short video cuts through all the noise and sets it out definitively. It also speaks to changing your visa category to business investment as an entrepreneur in the event you wish to start […]

You’ve Lost Your Job: Can You Get an Interim Hong Kong Employment Visa Extension While You Continue Looking for a New Employer?

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First Published November 17, 2014 – Advice Still Valid Today You’ve lost your job and your limit of stay is coming up for expiry. Any chance the Immigration Department will grant you an interim Hong Kong employment visa extension in these circumstances? QUESTION I am an Australian  national living in Hong Kong under an employment visa since […]

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Will My Hong Kong Employment Visa be Compromised If I Leave My Job Due to Intolerable Working Conditions?

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Should you be worried that your employment visa status in Hong Kong might be undermined if you choose to leave the employ of an unsavoury employer? QUESTION Hello, my current employer and visa sponsor is a small business, and my working conditions are intolerable – twice the amount of hours than stated on the contract, […]

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Hong Kong Work Visas – Criminal Record Declaration Now Needed

Posted in Employment Visas, Feature Article, Investment Visas, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Sherpa, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

Hong Kong Work Visas – Criminal Record Declaration Now Needed On Sunday, the government declared that various immigration programmes in Hong Kong would be modified, requiring applicants to declare their criminal record before obtaining an entry visa. The Immigration Department confirmed that changes would be made to talent admission schemes and under the General Employment […]

Is 50 Days a Particularly Long Time to Process a Hong Kong Employment Visa Application?

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How long should a Hong Kong Employment Visa Application take to finalize – especially in light of the 4 weeks cited on the Hong Kong Immigration Department website? QUESTION My working visa application is now almost into its 7th week (49 days and counting). There were documents that immigration requested from my sponsor which may have delayed […]

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Can I Remain in Hong Kong as a Visitor After My Employment Visa Expires?

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Simple question this one with an easy answer and indicative of the fact that, even though quite a straight forward issue, the information is not otherwise readily available anywhere else on the web. QUESTION I am a Canadian citizen, working in Hong Kong holding an employment visa for 7 weeks. I want to stay after […]

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