Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

How Do You Go About Changing Your Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship at Immigration Tower?

Posted in Employment Visas, Hadley Says…, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

If you have left the employ of your current employment visa sponsor, or even just thinking of doing so, you need to undergo what is known as a change of sponsorship application before you start working for anyone else in Hong Kong, including yourself! FIRST PUBLISHED APRIL 19, 2013 To do this you have to […]

Last 5 Years – the Top 10 Resources of the Hong Kong Visa Geeza Website & the Size of Our Tribe!

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

It has been 5 years since we launched the Hong Kong Visa Geeza website. Thought I would share with you the essential metrics of how well this website performs for us AND thought you might be interested in the top ten most visited articles / sections of this website over the last five years:   […]

100% Hong Kong Visa Application Success Rate? Take It All With A Grain of Salt!

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

First Published September 26, 2012 Some of my colleagues in the immigration services community in Hong Kong prefer to promote their practices on the strength of their 100% application success rates. I have no reason to doubt the veracity of these claims. I really do believe it’s true. How our competitors choose to position their […]

The Nuts & Bolts of Growing a Business in Hong Kong – Visas to Consider

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

On September 29, 2016 at PaperclipHK, Fresh Accounting (Paul Gardner), Talenox (Gordon Ng) and myself gave a talk on the nuts and bolts of growing a business in Hong Kong. In this short video I discuss the visas to consider to this end. More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting How a Hong Kong […]

Generosity As a Business Model: Business Talents Network, Yorkshire Pudding & The Hong Kong Visa Geeza

Posted in Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

On March 1, 2016 I was asked to give a presentation ‘on anything’ at a Business Talents Network at Yorkshire Pudding restaurant and I chose Generosity As A Business Model. This is my talk. You can download a copy of my presentation here.   More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting My Story – The Last […]

Russian Club Talk – Hong Kong Residence Visas For 2 Week Visitor Nationals – Presentation For Download

Posted in Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

Last night I gave a talk at the Russian Club in Hong Kong. Here is my presentation and other downloads as promised! The video will be posted in about 6 weeks. See also our extensive video presentations More Stuff You May Find Useful Or Interesting Visa Geeza Interviews – Chris Schrader, Co-Founder, The Graduate 10 […]

Fame At Last… the Hong Kong Visa Centre as a Classic Seth Godin Case Study!

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

I have 4 intellectual heroes – one of whom is Seth Godin. Image Credit: TED   I was interviewed on the Podcast series TGFx where I talk about how Seth Godin so instrumentally influenced the business which Martyn and I put together when developing the Hong Kong Visa Centre business model. You can listen to […]

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How To Create A Never Ending Stream of Customers By Building A Monopoly

Posted in Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

Towards the end of last year I was asked to talk about “marketing” at Entrepreneur Conf. at KPMG. I chose the title How To Create A Never Ending Stream of Customers By Building A Monopoly for a very good reason. This is my talk. More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting Visa Geeza Speaks […]

So, Stephen, What’s Your ‘Relationship’ Like With the Hong Kong Immigration Department?

Posted in Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza /

On December 8, 2015, I was a guest of Startup Grind Hong Kong. . .  In the Q&A session after the interview, I was asked about my “relationship” with the Hong Kong Immigration Department. It’s the first time anyone has asked me this question on camera and I was very surprised with what the questioner then […]

Visa Geeza Speaks… On Content Marketing in Hong Kong… Recommended Infographics Software

Posted in Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visa Geeza TV /

I was recently invited to contribute to a Digimeet event to talk on ‘How to get more sales through content marketing in Hong Kong’. In this final segment I recommend the PiktoChart software for producing infographics – no design skills needed whatsoever! More on Content Marketing in Hong Kong Setting the Scene What is Content […]