Hong Kong Immigration… What Does It Mean… One Year Rule?
Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, Special Programmes / 2 responses
Over the last 20 years or so I have coined a number of phrases in Hong Kong immigration parlance.
In this short video, I discuss the One Year Rule as it applies to PRC nationals applicants  for resident visa status in Hong Kong.
The one-year rule is where a PRC national who wants to come to Hong Kong to take up residency as a dependent or as an investor or as an employment leader applicant if they have lived outside of China for a minimum of one year immediately prior to submitting their application they will be able to be treated by the Immigration Department as though they were not Chinese they were another nationality and this stems from the fact that we have something called the floodgates policy which for all practical purposes makes it very very difficult and very very demanding for mainlanders to get access to Hong Kong through through our normal immigration policy arrangements but if you’ve spent 12 months continuously outside of China before you make your application for an immigration status in Hong Kong then under the one-year rule you’ll be treated just like any other foreign national and you’re not in a sense be subject to the normal floodgates mechanisms which make it very difficult for such PRC nationals to come and take a residence in 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.
Todd
What does the ImmD use for proof of the PRC national living outside of China for 1 year? Do visits back to the Mainland for say 1 week restart this 1 year clock? does the Mainlander need to register with the PRC government that they are leaving China?
The Visa Geeza
Day count and frequency of visits to China. Status overseas. Reasons for time in China.