Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

How Can You Extend Your Hong Kong Work Visa if Your Passport Is About to Expire?

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

How can you extend your Hong Kong work visa if your passport  has only a very limited amount of time remaining on it before it expires? QUESTION Hello, My passport is currently being renewed but my Hong Kong work visa runs out very soon.  However I cannot start the visa extension application process without a new […]

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I Want To Live In Hong Kong With My Boyfriend – Is The Working Holiday Visa A Viable Option?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

Sometimes, the sun and the moon align beautifully on a set of circumstances to allow an unmarried couple to spend time together in Hong Kong when ordinarily visa circumstances conspire against them. Not on this occasion, however! QUESTION “Hi there, I have just recently returned from Hong Kong to Canada where I am a citizen. […]

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How Can I Handle My Hong Kong Employment Visa Extension If I Plan To Be On Leave For 8 Weeks Around The Time For Renewal?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

This situation occurs quite a lot especially for those employees who were originally summer hires and are on back to back employment contracts matching the validity of their limits of stay. QUESTION I am a Canadian currently employed in Hong Kong and have a work visa. If I plan to be absent on leave in […]

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QOTW: What Happens If My Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Extension Application Is Refused?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

What is the story if your Hong Kong entrepreneur visa extension application is refused by the Immigration Department? QUESTION  OF  THE  WEEK If my Hong Kong entrepreneur visa extension application is rejected, is there a grace period after the visa expiration? If there is a grace period and during which I secure an employee visa, […]

What You SHOULD NOT DO When Renewing Or Extending Your Hong Kong Working Visa!

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

Extending your Hong Kong working visa? The beauty of the Hong Kong immigration services professio is that there is a ready pool of customers for both our professional services and also our free-of-all-cost information resources (on both this Blog and also our flagship D-I-Y  Guide Hong Kong Visa Handbook.) Some foreign nationals come, some go […]

I Am About To Lose My Hong Kong Dependant Visa & My Employer Won’t Sponsor An Employment Visa. Can I Just Keep Quiet At Work? They Probably Won’t Check My Visa Status…

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

What can you do if your marriage has irretrievably broken down and your Dependant visa is about to expire? QUESTION I am separating from my wife and she is refusing to keep me on her Dependent visa. My visa expires in a month and my employers have always made it clear that they won’t sponsor […]

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Hong Kong Employment Visa – Can I Transfer To Malaysia For Work Yet Leave My Family Behind In Hong Kong To Carry On Our Lives Here?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Your Question Answered /

Is it possible to stop working in Hong Kong under an employment visa, move to another country to work yet leave your family behind to continue their lives in here without you day to day? QUESTION Hi, I have got valid Hong Kong employment visa and i am living in Hong Kong since last 4 […]

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