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QUESTION

Can I look for a job in Hong Kong and attend interviews if I only hold a visitor visa?

ANSWER

Under Hong Kong immigration law, it is permitted activity to arrive as a visitor to look for and then interview for employment. It’s also permitted activity to accept an offer of employment. However, it is not permitted activity to take up any offer of employment without the consent of the Director of Immigration.

So effectively, what you would do is to arrive as a visitor, undertake the whole job recruitment process, complete that exercise, procure a job offer, and then working together with the employer that’s going to be sponsoring your application, the party that’s extended the job offer to you, you will submit an application for an employment visa.

You can do this while you’re a visitor in Hong Kong, although once your approval comes through, you will have to receive the employment visa label, and then take your label and make an exit from Hong Kong, relinquishing your visitor visa status as you exit. You can do this through Macau or China, or indeed any country outside or away from Hong Kong.

And at that point, once you’re outside of Hong Kong, you place the new employment visa label on a clean page in your passport and then you make a re-entry into Hong Kong. And at the point of arriving, the immigration officer will activate your employment visa status and you’ll be lawfully employable to take up that particular job at the point of visa activation upon arrival.

So, that’s the way the process works. I hope you find this useful.

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