When There Really is No Need to Spend Any Money With a Hong Kong Immigration Service Provider

For many people, especially those with a natural ability to manage a process or work to a set of procedural guidelines, there may very well..

Waiting-in-the-Wings: The Typical Experience of a Foreign National Spouse in the Hong Kong Visa Application Process

If you and your family are relocating to Hong Kong with your spouse’s job and he (or his employer) is responsible for organizing the visas..

The Foibles of Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Applications That Only Experience Can Fully Appreciate

Both the Hong Kong Visa Handbook and the accompanying updates posted daily on the Hong Kong Visa Geeza Blog along with the DIY Visa Kits..

How Can Presently Unemployed Investment Bankers Reorganize Their Careers in Order to Remain in Hong Kong?

These are trying times for investment bankers with the global financial crisis continuing to lead to career uncertainties for these professionals with seemingly no end..

What Do You Need to Do If There Has Been a Change in the Details of Your Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsor But No Change in Your Employer?

Sometimes, though not very often, the corporate entity sponsoring an employment visa for a foreign national employee working in Hong Kong, may undergo a reorganisation..

What Type of Visa Do You Think You Need for Hong Kong?

It is important to understand that Hong Kong is quite different, from an immigration perspective, than most other jurisdictions as residence visas are only available..

What Happens if You Inadvertently Breach Your Conditions of Stay by Taking Up an Unauthorised Employment in Hong Kong Without First Applying for a Change of Sponsorship?

Under Hong Kong immigration law, foreign nationals are granted employment visa permissions to  undertake work for a specific employer on the nominated terms and conditions..

How to Engage the Hong Kong Visa Centre if Your Application Has Been Refused by the Immigration Department

It is a terrible feeling to have your Hong Kong visa application rejected by the Immigration Department and you may by now, be wishing that..

How Does Hong Kong Right of Abode Downgrade to the Right to Land Materialize and What Are the Immigration Implications of This?

If you are a foreign national permanent resident of Hong Kong you will hold a permanent identity card and, as a result, will possess the..

How is the Hong Kong Investment Visa Process Actually Experienced by the Typical Foreign National Visa Applicant?

Getting a Hong Kong investment visa approval is one of the hardest single challenges when dealing with the Hong Kong Immigration Department. The approvability test..

How Important is the Support of InvestHK in Your Hong Kong Investment Visa Application?

InvestHK do a really good job of promoting economic opportunities which Hong Kong offers to foreign individuals and companies seeking to set up shop in..

Why Would You Choose Unconditional Stay After 7 Years Residence in Hong Kong When the Right of Abode is Available Instead?

  Unconditional stay and the right of abode are 2 very different immigration statuses but they both have one thing in common. Namely, you need..

Is It Actually Becoming Harder to Get Your Hong Kong Employment or Investment Visa Approved?

One refrain about the Hong Kong visa process that I have heard constantly down the years is that ‘it’s getting tougher’. In fact, it always..

The Long Stay Visitor’s Awkward Predicament

3 or 4 times a week I receive a call from people who have exactly the same problem. It happens so often now, that I..

The Economy at Home is Very Bad – So What Investment Visa Options Exist for You in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong has a lot to offer dynamic, entrepreneurial people who have a modicum of resources, some prior business experience and the desire to make..

Is the Hong Kong Immigration Department Website Actually Any Use to Visa Applicants?

The Hong Kong Immigration Department website is good for a few things but not very good at all where it counts – namely, indicting to..

What Does it Take to Get a Hong Kong Investment Visa Approved?

Securing an approval for an investment visa is one of the hardest challenges there is in the realm of Hong Kong immigration practice. Your mission..

Why Do Hong Kong Investment Visas Get Denied?

The approvability  test for a Hong Kong investment visa is that you have to show you are in a position to make a substantial contribution..

The Merits of Applying for a Reconsideration of a Refused Hong Kong Visa Application

The saying goes that a lawyer who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. The same could be said for a refused..

What Are Your Visa Options if Your Marriage in Hong Kong Has Irretrievably Broken Down?

So, for better or for worse, you and your spouse have gone your own separate ways and the question of your dependent visa hangs over..