Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

How Can I Convert My Foreign Domestic Helper Visa To A Dependant Visa After Marriage To A Hong Kong Permanent Resident?

Posted in Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

Can you swap from a foreign domestic helper visa to a dependant visa whilst in Hong Kong? QUESTION My domestic helper, from the Philippines, is married to a Hong Kong Permanent Resident. Her contract with me expires in April and they want to apply for a dependent visa for her. Is this possible, what are […]

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What Chance Is There That ImmD Will Grant A Visa To A Foreign National Who Previously Overstayed In Hong Kong By Five-And-A-Half Years?

Posted in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered /

Overstayed in Hong Kong for a very long time previously…? Great question this, not so much because the answer is mostly quite obvious, but because it gives me a chance to have a discussion about overstaying generally. QUESTION I was looking for a male helper and found a suitable one for our family. However, he […]

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What Kind of Visa Can We Get So My FDH Girlfriend (Contract Terminated) Can Stay With Me in Hong Kong?

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What Kind of Visa Can We Get So My FDH Girlfriend (Contract Terminated) Can Stay With Me in Hong Kong? Any possibility for love to continue in the wake of a terminated FDH contract? QUESTION My girl friend is a Filipino domestic helper who has just left her employment with a Chinese family – however, […]

Are There Any Realistic Long-Term Visa Options for Out-of-Work Foreign Domestic Helpers Seeking to Remain in Hong Kong With Their Boyfriends?

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Long-term visa options for out-of-work Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong? This scenario play itself out frequently enough here in Hong Kong that it is worthy of an answer and I am grateful to the reader for raising the question – so here we go… QUESTION My girl friend is an Indonesian domestic helper who […]

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Right of Abode in Hong Kong For Foreign Domestic Helpers – It Was All So-Inevitable Really…

Posted in Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

First Published March 27, 2013   The Court of Final Appeal quashed the hopes of 1,067 long stay foreign domestic helpers(“FDHs”) earlier this week when they ruled that time spent in Hong Kong as a foreign domestic helper is not ‘ordinary residence’ for the purposes of a right of abode application. Putting the human dimension […]

STOP PRESS..! Hitler’s Hong Kong Passport Application Has Been Rejected

Posted in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas /

Continuing the meme parody of Hitler in the bunker, this time responding to the news that his application for a Hong Kong passport has been..

QOTW: What Kind of Visa Can We Get So My FDH Girlfriend (Contract Terminated) Can Stay With Me in Hong Kong?

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Any possibility for love to continue in the wake of a terminated FDH contract? QUESTION  OF  THE  WEEK My girl friend is a Filipino domestic..

The Visa Geeza on RTHK Radio Three – October 2013

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

Thanks to Uncle Phil Whelan, I was back on the hallowed ground of RTHK Radio 3 on Broadcast Drive yesterday… As always, we covered heaps..

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Can Children Born in Hong Kong to Foreign Domestic Helpers Get Dependant Visas?

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I’ve been asked this question a few times down the years so I’m grateful for it finally being asked via this Blog QUESTION I was..

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