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GEP Work Visa | The General Employment Policy  Enters a New Era of Skills-Based Immigration

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How & Why Hong Kong Seeks To Attract Foreign National Talent The Hon

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Divorce Visa Hong Kong - What Happens Now If Your Marriage Is Falling Apart?

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Long Stay Visitor? Been In Hong Kong More Than 180 Days In A One Year Given Period ...  

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Work in Hong Kong on a Visitor Visa? First Published September 22, 2021 & Updated Octob

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The 2026 Immigration Facilitation Scheme, Authorised Host Organisations and the 14-Day Employment Exception

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The Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS) Visa Update | From Inception Until The Present Day  

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Navigating The New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (New CIES)  

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A Major Change: The Upgraded Assessment Regime for Hong Kong’s Entrepreneur Visa  

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Hong Kong Immigration Is Changing. So Are We.

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Hong Kong Dependant Visa Navigating

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The Hong Kong entrepreneur visa (business investment

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PRACTICE UPDATE:

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Unemployed Holders of Employment Visas Are No Longer Eligible to Change to Top Talent Pass Visa Fo

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Sierra Leone Permanent Residency And Citizenship GO-FOR-GOLD

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The Hong Kong Immigration Depart

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Shenzhen Residents Now Eligible for Unlimited 7-Day Visits to Hong Kong The Visa Geeza Discusses O

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If you have left the employ of your current Hong Kong employment visa sponsor, or even just thinking of doing so, you need to undergo what is known as a

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Elderly Parents Of Temporary Residents - Visas Available? Hong Kong visas for aged parents - the 

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The Hong Kong Immigration Department Shed Some Light On Talent Attraction Endeavours Hong Kong Vis

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Hong Kong Top Talent Pass Attracting 36,000 Skilled Professionals to Hong Kong

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 7/24 A Non-Resid

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Can I Extend The 3 Years Needed To Keep My Right of Abode In Hong Kong? Will ImmD Make An

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Hong Kong Chef Opening A New Restaurant | What Visa Do I Need | How To Guarantee Approval?

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What is the approvability test for a Hong Kong entrepreneur

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I got this email in from a website visitor yesterday about "Immigration Officers repeatedly stopping my girlfriend" when she arrives at Hon

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Your Employer Has No Plans To Help You Secure Your Hong Kong Employment Visa? Persuading &

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If your employment visa expires before your change of employer application is finalised, all is not lost. The key thing is t

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PRACTICE UPDATE 2026 How the Content Must Now Be Read in Light of the Updated IANG (Immigration Arr

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Practice Update 2026 - This content must b

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  VisaGeezaAi vs ChatGPT - Who To Trust? We're just in the final stages of pre-launch tweaki

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 6/24 Hong Kong P

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Unlocking Opportunities With The Hong Kong Working Holiday Visa Discov

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 5/24 The Hong Ko

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 4/24 Extending A

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 3/24 Obtaining A

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 2/24 Practical H

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All You Need to Know | Business Immigration In Hong Kong | Updated Q3 2023 | Part 1/24 Explore Bus

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Hong Kong Visa Requirements To Take Up Residence Here's What You Need To Consider If You Want To L

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Application For Employing Professionals In Hong Kong - How About The 'Hire-Locals-First' Policy?

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This short essay sets out the essential elements of the Supplementary Labour Scheme of Hong Kong as of March 2014

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Navigating the complexities of immigration law can be challenging, particularly when it comes to dependent visas in Hong Kong. One q

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New Visa Policy Initiatives For Hong Kong | Expand the Top Talent Pass Scheme | Relax Certain Visa Requirements | Reintroduce the Capita

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Have you got a business opportunity you want to pursue on the side, in addition to working full time for your employer in Hong Kong? If so, you're going to need to secu

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If you're wondering if you can stay in Hong Kong as a visitor after your employment visa expires, I discuss the process of c

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Practice Update 2026 - This content must be read in light of changes to ImmD practice since it was first publish

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A Hong Kong visa application denial is disappointing and can occur for numerous reasons. In this post,  I will explore seve

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Hong Kong Employment Visa - Looking To Get One? A

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Hong Kong Training Visa? A Guide for Aspiring Foreign National Interns and Trainees Are you ey

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The Hong Kong Top Talent Pass & Other Visas Hong Kong Top Talent Pass - a 40 minutes discu

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Can I Get A Dependent Visa For My 91-Year-Old Father?

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Hong Kong QMAS -  Is There Such a Thing as an 'Occupations in Demand' List In 2023? All Hail

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Zzzzip.com | Your Gateway To Business Success In Hong Kong | Comprehensive Support | Hong Kong Investment Visa (And Much More ...)

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Hong Kong Investment Visa Wrongly Applied For This case study looks at the problems which aris

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How To Apply For A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa If you are intending to make an application for a

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Hong Kong Work Visa Rejection Reasons? If an application for a case

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Approval Criteria for a Hong Kong Training Visa Foreign nationals and residents of mainland Ch

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Professional Help With Your Hong Kong Visa Application? What I love about Hong Kong is our fre

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Can 2 Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Seekers Apply to Immigration Department In A Single Application? Are you and your partner intere

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What steps should an employer take to ensure a job seeker i

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Learn how to qualify for Hong Kong Permanent Residency after 7 years of living in the HKSAR continuously. Find out the requirements,

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Hong Kong employment visa leaving your job - discover the implications of leaving your job on your Hong Kong employment visa, and le

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Hong Kong investment visa for freelancers with overseas income? Are you a freelancer living in the HKSAR? You might be wonde

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Hong Kong Visa Application Success Rate?

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Hong Kong Top Talent Pass If you're a big earner (USD320,000 in the last

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Have you got an opportunity to be an independant contractor rather than serving as a full time employee and wondering if you

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  If you're looking to

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When applying for a Hong Kong Employment Visa, it's obviously helpful to know the typical processing time

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Applying for a Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa? The Hong Kong Immigration Department requires applicants to provide a 2-year business plan that s

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It's a valid question. Do immigration consultants add any value to the Hong Kong visa process? As the programming of VisaG

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Hong Kong Employment Visa Extension? Losing your job can be a challenging experience, and if you're working in Hong Kong, you might be wondering if it's possible to get

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Explore our comprehensive guide on Hong Kong employment and dependent visas. Learn about the application process, eligibilit

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The foibles of Hong Kong visa & immigration applications that only experience can fully appreciate - I originally published this post on April 29, 2013 and upd

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Hong Kong Work Visas-Criminal Record Declaration Applicable to New CIES Visas Too Wider

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It probably won't come as a surprise to you but we're actively and quickly moving ahead with the introduction of Ai to our immigration prac

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How the Content Must Now Be Read in Light of the Updated QMAS (Quality Migrant Admission Scheme) and TTPS (Top Talent Pass) Policy In t

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Hong Kong Immigration Policy Enhancements October 2022. An interesting turn up for the books last week, when the Chief Executive gave his 

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Hong Kong PR After 7 Years? What does it take to qualify for Hong Kong PR after 7 years? Are you a foreign national having arrived in Hong Kong legally and have

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From my new YouTube Shorts channel. Perhaps you can Subscribe please? Once this channel get

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Last Thursday, July 7 2022, I participated in a hosted Webinar on How To Become An Entrepreneur in Hong Kong. https://youtu.be/gYk81g43hSA This one hour presentat

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First Published November 19, 2017 Complex immigration scenarios sometimes present themselves with unforeseen conseq

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How the Content Must Now Be Read in Light of the Updated QMAS (Quality Migrant Admission Scheme) Policy In the hard-hitting consumer ad

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Hong Kong Immigration Department Start e-Visa Arrangement  (implemented w

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Last week I gave a short presentation - Hong Kong Visas Overview in 20 Minutes with the Hong Kong Association of New York 

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The Hong Kong Immigration Department are still allowing visitors to Hong Kong again (mostly).

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The times they are a changin'...

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Fast moving - no experience with it yet - here is the Government blurb ...

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I get 30-40 questions each week and not all of them merit a podcast answer. Some are answered quickly via email and for the next few days I'll post some of these anonym

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I get 30-40 questions each week and not all of them merit a podcast answer. Some are answered quickly via email and for the next few days I'll post some of these anonym

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I have been asked twice recently about adding the Hong Kong

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First Published May 4, 2013 If you and your family are relocating to Hong Kong with your spouse’s job and he (or

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First Published May 9, 2013

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First Published July 18, 2013 On June 6th, 2013 I was interviewed by five law students from the Chinese University

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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

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I recently gave a talk at Centre O Connect in Sheung wan setting out the nitty gritty of the Hong Kong entrepreneur visa since the implementation of the

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It has been 5 years since we launched the Hong Kong Visa Geeza website. Thought I would share with you the essential metrics of how well this website performs for us AN

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On September 29, 2016 at PaperclipHK,

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On March 1, 2016 I was asked to give a presentation 'on anything' at a Business Talents Network at

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Last night I gave a talk at the Russian Club in Hong Kong. Here is my presentation and other d

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I have

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Towards the end of last year I was asked to talk about "marketing" at Entrepreneur Conf. at

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On December 8, 2015, I was a guest of Startup Grind Hong Kong.

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I was recently invited to contribute to a Digimeet event to t

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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

by The Visa Geeza in Employment Visas,
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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

by The Visa Geeza in Employment Visas,
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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

by The Visa Geeza in Employment Visas,
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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

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In this occasional series of commentary, I provide a peek inside our professional practice and offer a glimpse of what it's like to be part of the

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PRACTICE UPDATE: October 2026 Summary of Legacy Position: Written upon

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In an initative to make life easier for the foreign born offspring of Chinese permanent residents settled abroad at the time of their birth, the Chief Executive of the

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How the Content Must Now Be Read in Light of the Updated QMAS (Quality Migrant Admission Scheme) Policy In the historical policy commen

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The Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa and the Startup visa comes into being (of sorts). In his

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In his recent Policy Address, the C

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More information on the Hong Kong Immigration Policy Changes 2015  front is starting to emerge.

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Now that the dust has settled on the news of the

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I know that quite a few members of my tribe have been getting out to the

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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

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On May 29, 2014 The Henley Group sponsored a talk on How to 

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I spent the last week in the UK learning how to be a television presenter...

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Eventually Relocating to Hong Kong For Work? How Can The Visitor Visa Help Out In The Meantime ...

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On June 13 I was invited to address the 2013 Monaco Trade Delegation to Hong Kong & China on the question of visas to live and work in Hong Kong.

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Not really. There's nothing revealed here that I haven't disclosed many times previously. Just looking for a catchy headline!

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These are trying times for investment bankers with the global financial crisis continuing to lead to career uncertainties for these professionals with seemingly no end

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Under Hong Kong immigration law, foreign nationals are granted

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InvestHK Letter of Support? InvestHK do a really good job of promoting economic opportunities which Hong Kong offers to foreign individuals and companies seek

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Why Do Hong Kong Investment Visas Get Denied? The approvability  test for a

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Download the slides from my accompanying talk

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You, like many foreign nationals working in Hong Kong, may quickly adopt the place as your long term home and, naturally enough, will be keen to maintain your residence