Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

How Important Are Photographs When Documenting Relationship Bona Fides in a Same Sex Partner Visa Application for Hong Kong?

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

It’s quite rare in most types of family visa applications that a single supporting document will definitively determine success or refusal. Of course, if you claim to be married or a legal parent (for example) and seeking a legal dependant’s visa, marriage and birth certificates are an absolute prerequisite to establish proof of legal relationship. But […]

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Hong Kong Defacto Spouse Visa – Video Presentation by the Hong Kong Visa Geeza

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

If you and your defacto spouse life partner (heterosexual couple) are thinking about making an application for a Hong Kong Defacto Spouse Visa, you may find this..

How Easy / Practical Is It to Swap Between a Prolonged Visitor Visa & Student Visa (or Employment Visa) in Hong Kong?

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

Same sex partners, married or otherwise, are just not treated equally when it comes to immigration in Hong Kong I’m afraid… QUESTION Dear Stephen, I..

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Will the Fact of 2 Previous Visits to Hong Kong Help or Hinder a Prolonged Visitor Visa Application for My Same Sex Partner?

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

Procedural question about same sex partner visa applications today – yet an important one all the same. QUESTION Hi Stephen, I am in a loving..

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UPDATE: Hong Kong Prolonged Visitor Visas for British Nationals – the Jury is Still Out After All

Posted in Family Visas, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

I am really grateful to Paula Walker of Crown Mobility for engaging last week on the topic of prolonged visitor visas for British nationals seeking to..

Hong Kong Prolonged Visitor Visas No Longer Available to British National Trailing Life Partners

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

It has recently become apparent that British Citizens can no longer receive prolonged visitor visas to stay in Hong Kong with their defacto spouses and..

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A Harsh Decision – Why the Hong Kong Immigration Department Will Not Give My Client a Prolonged Visitor Visa

Posted in Family Visas, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas /

I’ve written lots and lots previously about same sex partner visa applications for Hong Kong. To recap, same sex partners who are in a loving..

What Hong Kong Visa Options Exist for Unmarried, Trailing Partners?

Posted in 60 Second Snapshot, Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

Under Hong Kong immigration policy, if you’re married, life is pretty much plain sailing from a visa perspective. Married spouses accompanying their partners to the..

Hong Kong Employment & Same Sex Partner Visas – A Joint Application Strategy

Posted in Case Study, Employment Visas, Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

 Our clients were a same sex partner couple from Australia. Susan was a Forex trader working for a boutique trading concern in Sydney and her..