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Redundancy | Expiring Hong Kong Employment Visa | Process Pitfalls | How To Manage

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Musing / 149 responses

What To Do If You’ve Lost Your Job And Have An Expiring Hong Kong Employment Visa? Do You Have To Leave? What About Your Eligibility For PR?   Introduction Experiencing an expiring Hong Kong employment visa after being made redundant can be a stressful situation. Hong Kong’s visa and immigration processes can range from being […]

Half Way Through the Process | Cancel One Hong Kong Employment Visa Application | Start A Second One Instead?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Your Question Answered / 10 responses

Cancel One Hong Kong Employment Visa Application to Start a Second One? It sometimes happens that 2 job offers emerge in quick succession and you prefer to accept the 2nd one but the visa application for the first one has already started … So What Happens In A Situation Like This? Cancel one Hong Kong […]

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Hong Kong Visa Geeza | A Day-In-The-Life Of | Hong Kong Immigration Lawyer

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 1 response

A Day-In-The-Life Of Hong Kong Immigration Lawyer Stephen Barnes [aka] The Hong Kong Visa Geeza 10 Years Ago … Hong Kong Visa Geeza: a day-in-the-life [and more]. On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, my client, compadre-in-arms and all-round good gal Gail Turner of Gail Turner Photography shadowed me around to take a photo montage of a […]

The Industry Secret Most Hong Kong Immigration Consultants Don’t Want You to Discover

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 31 responses

What Hong Kong Immigration Consultants Like To Keep Quiet About … All cases are ‘hard’, right? Lifting The Lid [Looking around furtively…] Shussh… You are probably paying Hong Kong immigration consultants too much for your Hong Kong visa service. It’s true, and here’s the reason why. Hard vs Easy Your ‘easy’ Hong Kong visa application […]

Hong Kong Investment Visa Wrongly Applied For | Clearing Up the Confusion & Getting the Correct Employment Visa Instead

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Case Study, Employment Visas, Feature Article, Investment Visas, VG Front Page / 7 responses

Hong Kong Investment Visa Wrongly Applied For This case study looks at the problems which arise when an applicant for a Hong Kong employment visa mistakenly applies for an investment visa in light of the fact he is an intercompany transferee establishing his employer’s business operations in Hong Kong from scratch 1. Hong Kong Investment […]

The Perils of Contriving a Job Offer Just for the Purposes of a Hong Kong Employment Visa Application

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Hadley Says… / 17 responses

Pretending You Have A Job Offer To Get A Hong Kong Employment Visa? Updated August 22, 2023 What are the consequences of providing false information to an Immigration Officer in Hong Kong? Is it worth the risk to pretend you have a job offer for a Hong Kong employment visa?  Is It Worth The Risk? […]

Freelance Visa Hong Kong | Can You Get Immigration Permissions For A Hong Kong Freelance Job?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Investment Visas, Your Question Answered / 6 responses

Can You Get A Visa For A Hong Kong Freelance Job? First Published April 22, 2012 – Updated August 2023 Visas for one-man consulting businesses figure constantly in our enquiry Inbox. This post will attempt to put to bed this question once and for all, namely … Is It Possible To Get Visa For A […]

Does A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Need An Extensive Business Plan?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in 60 Second Snapshot, Investment Visas / 6 responses

Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Need An Extensive Business Plan – Say 60 Pages Long? Not massively so. In fact you can get away without one altogether if writing such a document doesn’t fall readily within your existing skill set. There are other ways to skin this particular cat … Does A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa […]

Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Case Study – 3 Examples Which Would Not Get Approved

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Case Study, Investment Visas / 13 responses

Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Case Study Examples The Hong Kong entrepreneur visa approvability test is extremely onerous when compared to other Hong Kong visa categories. Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Case Study Examples Shed Some Light … Brand new businesses which do pass the test and end up supporting the business investment (entrepreneur) visa application of […]

How To Apply For A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa – 10 Must-Have Resources

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing, Resource, VG Front Page / 101 responses

How To Apply For A Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa If you are intending to make an application for a Hong Kong entrepreneur visa, you’re going to need a variety of resources to manifest your intentions properly with the Immigration Department en route to your all-important visa approval. 10 All-You-Need Resources For A 100% Free Hong […]