How to Apply For a Hong Kong Investment Visa Without Paying for Professional Help

Permitted Activity in Hong Kong as a Visitor

I am in the process of revisiting a lot of my older video content to ensure its continuing relevance and validity. I will also be conducting a whole new series of updated talks around town in the coming few weeks and the videos of those will, as always, be posted here.

Whilst this talk harks way back to 2015, it is still entirely relevant today …

PRACTICE UPDATE: How the content must now be read in light of current ImmD policy:

This foundational legal guide outlining what business activities an overseas entrepreneur may lawfully undertake while on visitor status (such as scouting locations, opening corporate accounts, and negotiating leases) must now be framed with urgent compliance warnings. Under historical practice, prospective founders frequently overstepped into early operations while awaiting their visas, relying on ImmD’s informal tolerance during the setup phase. Today, because ImmD insists that commercial leases be signed, funds deployed, and local staff placed on active MPF-compliant payroll prior to approving an Entrepreneur Visa, foreign visitors face severe exposure to accusations of unlawful employment. The guidance must emphasize establishing formal local governance—appointing resident directors or corporate service managers to execute operational tasks—keeping the foreign founder strictly within passive, non-operational boundaries until entry clearance is endorsed.

Update 2023.

I have given this talk around town for the last couple of years now and so pleased to finally add it to our coverage of the Hong Kong investment visa, specifically discussing here what is and is not permitted activity in Hong Kong as a visitor visa holder.

The talk was graciously hosted at WYND Co-working Space, ran by a group of great people who I have a lot of time for.

The Complete Talk in Logical Segments

1 – Introduction

2 – Policy

3 – Visa Problem?

4 – Mainlanders

5 – Visitors

6 – Work Visa?

7 – Investment Visa?

8 – Approvability Test

9 – Cash Needed

10 – Catch 22

11 – Loved Ones

12 – Visa Refused?

13 – Trying Again

14 – D-I-Y

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