How Can You Extend Your Hong Kong Work Visa if Your Passport Is About to Expire?
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How can you extend your Hong Kong work visa if your passport has only a very limited amount of time remaining on it before it expires?
QUESTION
Hello,
My passport is currently being renewed but my Hong Kong work visa runs out very soon.
However I cannot start the visa extension application process without a new passport.
I am worried my visa will expire before the application is complete.
Does immigration allow special extensions for such circumstances?
ANSWER
This situation would occur a lot more frequently than you might imagine and the Immigration Department have a very straightforward way of dealing with it; essentially, what you do is that you start your extension application with your old passport details – the application should be submitted within 30 days of the expiry of your current Hong Kong employment visa limit of stay, and at the same time, you submit proof of your new passport application to the Immigration Department as part of that extension exercise.
This inputs the Immigration Department that there is a new travel document in process and they will wait until the issue of your new passport in order to finalise your new extension that will go into your new passport.
I hope you find this useful!
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