Visa Stories Like Yours

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Jan 2022

Hong Kong Permanent Residency Approval With 2 Year Absence From Hong Kong!

Posted by / in Case Study, Long Stay & PR / 20 responses

Hong Kong Permanent Residency Approval With 2 Year Absence From Hong Kong! First Published: December 8, 2013 This case study details a Hong Kong Right of Abode application where our client had, due to ill health, unexpectedly spent more than two years away from Hong Kong during the 7 years of continuous ordinary residence needed […]

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Jul 2017

You Have Been Warned: The Hong Kong Immigration Department Are Now Essentially Working To Rule

Posted by / in Case Study, Employment Visas / No responses

I have been spending the last 4-5 months of my life fending off the reasonable concerns which clients have about how long it is taking ImmD to finalise most type of visa applications but mostly employment and business investment (entrepreneur) applications. Here’s an example of how it works (real life case example) from a recent […]

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Apr 2014

From Eel Farms to Chicken Sexing – All In a Day’s Work for the Hong Kong Visa Geeza!

Posted by / in Case Study, Employment Visas / 2 responses

Last month I delivered a CPD Course on Business Immigration to Hong Kong. I have just received a short piece of footage from the organisers Profectional where, in the 3 hour presentation, I give an example of how the Hong Kong Immigration Department were prepared to offer an employment visa to an 18 year old high […]

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Aug 2013

The Anatomy of a Capital Investment Entrant Scheme Pathway to a HKSAR Passport for a Chinese National Resident on the Mainland

Posted by / in Case Study, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR / 4 responses

   Image: SCMP Mr Chen, his wife and 8 year old son are from Shanghai. Mr Chen is a manufacturer of specialist molded rubber components used exclusively in the mobile phone industry and wished to relocate himself to Hong Kong. For several good reasons. Hong Kong’s is a convenient local tax haven for rich Chinese […]

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Jul 2013

The Remarkable Tale of a Hong Kong Investment Visa Approval – Buying a Restaurant, Maintaining Jobs & Managing Remotely

Posted by / in Case Study, Investment Visas / 5 responses

On Friday last week, our client Mike Chapin very graciously invited my colleagues and I to have dinner at his restaurant JAR in Central. He asked us along as his guests to celebrate the approval of his and his wife Natalia’s Hong Kong investment and dependant visa applications a few weeks earlier. Due to travel and other (family) […]

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Sep 2012

The Anatomy of a ‘Slam Dunk’ Hong Kong Investment Visa Application Taking Just 7 Weeks to Approval!

Posted by / in Case Study, Investment Visas / 15 responses

Something extremely rare happened to us yesterday. For the first time in yonks, we had a business investment visa approved on the strength of a single submission. Yep, one single lodgment of the application bundle with none of the normal to-ing and fro-ing with the Hong Kong Immigration Department over the course of the usual […]

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Sep 2012

Hong Kong Visa Application – Student to Investment – With a Twist!

Posted by / in Case Study, Investment Visas / 2 responses

Our client was UK national who had, prior to deciding to study in Hong Kong, redomiciled his relatively new, yet manifestly profitable business, here from the south of England. Britain’s loss, Hong Kong’s gain. His business partner, also a UK citizen, had independently applied for an investment visa some months earlier and had been approved […]

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Jul 2012

Hong Kong Travel Pass Used to Keep An Extended Family Together – Quite Lawfully!

Posted by / in Case Study, Family Visas, Visitor Visas / 12 responses

This case study discusses how the creative, yet perfectly lawful, use of the Hong Kong Travel Pass worked to allow a newly separated extended family from the Philippines to be able to carry on their lives together in Hong Kong even though a much-desired dependent visa was not available in their circumstances. More Stuff You […]

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