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Common Confusion And Misunderstanding | Is It Possible To Extend Hong Kong Training Visa?

December 11th, 2023

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So, Is It Ever Possible To Extend Hong Kong Training Visa?

Updated July, 2023

Before You Can Extend Hong Kong Training Visa – You Need To Get One!

The Hong Kong training visa involves an application to enter Hong Kong for a limited period of training (meaning not more than 12 months) to acquire special skills and knowledge not available in the applicant’s country or the sponsoring company may be favourably considered if:

1. There is no security objection and the applicant has no known record of serious crime.

2. His or her bona fides and those of the sponsoring company are satisfied.

3. The sponsoring company well‐established, capable of providing the proposed training.

4. There is a contract in place in regard to the training proposed.

5. The sponsoring company guarantees in writing the maintenance and repatriation of the applicant and that the applicant will receive training in the sponsor’s premises until the end of the agreed period, after which the applicant will return to his/her place of residence; and

6. The proposed duration and content of the training programme can be justified.

The question is begged, therefore, if a training visa can be extended when it comes up for expiry?

Extend Hong Kong Training Visa?

The short answer is usually no.

The Hong Kong training visas is a special, limited purpose employment visa and the nature of the approval essentially sets the scene definitively for what you can do whilst you hold one.

ImmD almost always hold the applicant and the sponsoring company to the terms of their undertaking in respect of the length of the period of stay requested when the Hong Kong training visa was granted and, apart from a very short additional extension of time (say up to a maximum of one additional month for a good reason) when the training project is over, it’s time for the Hong Kong training visa holder to comply with the terms of his undertaking and leave Hong Kong.

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The Hong Kong Visa Geeza (a.k.a Stephen Barnes) is a co-founder of the Hong Kong Visa Centre and author of the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. A law graduate of the London School of Economics, Stephen has been practicing Hong Kong immigration since 1993 and is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on business immigration matters here for the last 24 years.

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  • Jay

    8 Jan 2019 pm31 4:50pm
    01

    Hi VisaGeeza,

    I currently have a 12 month training visa in HK (unpaid) and the company I am training with now would like to give me a student RA position 3 months into the contract.

    Am I allowed a salary on my training visa? If not, is there a way I can get this position and earn?

    Kind regards

    Jay

    • The Visa Geeza

      16 Jan 2019 am31 10:51am
      02

      Sorry Jay – I don’t understand the question. How did you manage to get a TV without any training contract referencing payment? And I don’t know what “student RA position” means?

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