A relatively straightforward answer to, what can be, quite a complex question dealing with ‘Hong-Kong-immigration status-by-descent’ and, eventually, the Right of Abode for foreign nationals born in the HKSAR.
QUESTION
I was born in Hong Kong (I am a British passport holder and of British parents). I do not have ***.
My daughter was born in the US and has a US passport and a British passport. We have lived back in Hong Kong since 2010 and she has had a visa for school. She was born in 2003.
Does she need to spend 7 continuous years here in HK or can I apply for permanent residency for her because I was born here?
Thank you
ANSWER
Just reading between the lines of your question, it appears to me that as a British National, born in Hong Kong, you got your Immigration status here now by virtue of your birth in Hong Kong to British Hong Kong belongers prior to 1997, this gave you the right to land in the process; and this is an immigration status that is not quite the Right of Aboad, it’s just one notch below it. The Right to Land basically means that you have the right to land in Hong Kong, not be removed from Hong Kong, and not be subject to any conditions or limit of stay, including the amount of time that you can spend in Hong Kong.
However, with the Right to Land, you can’t pass this onto your daughter by descent. So, in practice, you will have found that when you came back in 2010, there was no immigration status available to her automatically, and therefore she had to be assessed on her own circumstances at that time.
So I suspect that you would have had to go on to secure immigration status for her, so that she could be here and study, and that would have been a dependent visa which you are able to sponsor for as a Right to Land holder. You could have, of course, made an application for student visa as well, and that would have been granted to.
Certainly she would have been entitled to a dependent visa had, you made an application, given that you do, on the face of it, possess the Right to Land. Therefore, as a temporary resident, whether she’s got a student visa or a dependent visa, she will have been, once she’s been here for a period of not less than seven years, she’ll be entitled to apply for the Right of Abode in her own right, and with that, her current limitations to her visa status will be lifted. And similarly for you, as I say, I assume when you say that you don’t have a three star ID card, you’re effectively saying that you haven’t yet gone on yourself to acquire the Right of Abode.
And after you have been here for seven years continuously, so looking at the dates, looks like 2017, you’ll be eligible to adjust your own immigration status from the Right to Land to the Right of Abode. And on that note, the three star denotation on your ID card itself basically just indicates that the holder is eligible for the issue of a Hong Kong re-entry permit from China, but only in the case of Chinese citizens, and that’s not routinely available to foreign nationals. But in and of itself, if you do possess three stars, it does indicate, as an implication that the ID card holder does have the Right of Abode. But that notwithstanding, it does state, the permanent identity card does state on the back that you have the rights of abode accordingly.
So, just to recap, effectively, once your daughter gets to seven years continuous order in residence, she’ll be able to make an application for the Right of Abode in her own right.
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My partner and I run a company (LTD) in Hong Kong. We’ve been a bit behind on our bills and most likely the company will be taken to court to pay late fees and penalties.
My partner is due to receive his Right of Abode in July.
Would such court cases affect his Hong Kong PR status application?
ANSWER
Principally, the Immigration Department are looking to see that there is no security objection to a long stay foreign national resident of Hong Kong becoming a permanent resident and securing the Right of Abode in the process. Therefore, if there is a history of serious criminal activity, then you can expect the Immigration Department to look at that from the perspective of a security objection.
However, in the normal course of transacting and doing business in Hong Kong, if you find yourself on the wrong end of perhaps some government fines for non compliance with, say, company law or other licencing requirements, or you found yourself in a bit of hot water with possibly some other civil partner that you’re having some kind of civil dispute with, and that’s working its way through the judicial process.
None of those things would typically amount to a security objection, which would preclude your business partner from securing the rights of abode. So, unless what you are saying relates to something of quite significant weight, all things considered, because the details are not actually provided, my advice would be that it’s probably not going to have any impact on your partner’s permanent residency application whatsoever.
Okay. I hope you found that useful.
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Simple enough of a question – will your Hong Kong work visa be compromised if you are forced into bankruptcy while temporarily resident in the HKSAR?
QUESTION
If I am currently a working visa holder in Hong Kong, how will my visa be affected if I go bankrupt?
Will the Immigration Department tell me to leave Hong Kong immediately or will I be allowed to stay until the expiration of my limit of stay?
Also, I assume this will definitely be a huge detriment if I want to apply for an extension of stay right?
Thanks.
ANSWER
This is a great question and I’m surprised that it hasn’t presented itself over the last few years in its current guise. But essentially the thing to understand is that if you have become bankrupt in Hong Kong, it’s not good news. As you can appreciate, the ability to remain here over the long haul could be problematic and is indeed highly case specific.
Whilst you are being managed by a trustee in bankruptcy and you do maintain your current employment, then the Immigration Department will probably have something to say about that arrangement and would look at the extension of stay with a set of eyes that to put it sort of mildly, would not be routine.
Doesn’t automatically follow that you wouldn’t get an extension of stay. But if you’re seeking to change your employer and all this kind of stuff, then it might be problematic. But in the final analysis, it really does all depend. In any event, at the point of bankruptcy, if you do have a current limit of stay endorsed in your passport, that shouldn’t be affected.
That is, the Immigration Department won’t suddenly come sweeping down on you and say, hey, you’ve been made bankrupt. Therefore, we’re going to put. Pull the rug from under your feet and cancel your current limited stay and send you off, uh, from whence you came. No, the issue really only presents itself in the context of an application subsequently to extend your stay or to go through the processes of perhaps changing your sponsor.
Both of which would require express disclosure to the Immigration Department so that they could make a true assessment of whether or not you represent a security objection to Hong Kong, all things considered, as a result of your bankruptcy. But certainly, in my experience, there shouldn’t be an immediate impact on your current limited stay. Extensions could be problematic as could be change of sponsorships, if that’s what’s going on.
Okay, I hope you found that useful.
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You know how it is… you arrive in Hong Kong for a year of fun and adventure and then you want to stay… This article deals with the transfer from a Hong Kong Working Holiday Visa to a full Employment Visa.
QUESTION
Hi there!
I’m an Australian citizen in Hong Kong, working under a working holiday visa which only permits me to work 3 months per employer.
Is the only way around this to be sponsored by my employer or can I transfer to another visa?
I presume it’s quite expensive and tricky to be sponsored for an employment visa by a company – is that true?
Thanks in advance for your help!
ANSWER
The working holiday visa is an excellent form of immigration status for people who are under 30 years of age who want to come to Hong Kong and experience Hong Kong for an extended holiday and embark on a little bit of a cultural exchange. However, there are conditions that accompany a working holiday visa depending on your nationality; and in this instance we’re talking about an Australian citizen. An australian citizen is allowed to be in Hong Kong for twelve months to work, but can’t work for any single employer for more than three months at a stretch. So in effect, what happens in the case of a working holiday visa holder who finds himself in a position that both him and his employer wants to regularise and make into a full time, in a sense, a permanent employment, then it is possible to make an application to adjust your status from working holiday visa through to employment.
But bear in mind that the Immigration Department will still apply the approvability test for the employment visa to deem you a professional for the purposes of the General Employment Policy. And that will mean that you will need to show in the context of the job offer that you have got for full-time employment that you possess special skills, knowledge and experience of value to are not readily available in Hong Kong.
Now I’ve dealt with the approvability test for the employment visa under the general employment policy ad nauseam elsewhere on the blog, so I don’t propose that we labour it on this occasion, but the procedure is very straightforward – you can be in Hong Kong possessing a working holiday visa, and you can make your application to adjust your status whilst you’re here and whilst you’re still carrying on providing your employment services under the working holiday visa.
In terms of the expense, well that’s a question of whether you pay for professional assistance to help you through that process or whether your employer has got the necessary resources internally to be able to complete that application on your behalf.
Or indeed, you’ve got all the resources available to you on the Hong Kong Visa handbook and indeed on this blog with me answering questions like this for you so that it doesn’t necessarily have to be an expensive exercise. You can certainly navigate the labyrinth which is the Immigration Department for very little or indeed no cost at all. So that shouldn’t put you off.
In a nutshell, the key thing to understand is that the working holiday visa isn’t designed to be a gateway visa through to full employment; the conditions that you got your working holiday visa under are quite strict. They tell you clearly in advance this is for short term educational and cultural exchange. If it just so happens that you find a really good opportunity whilst you’re here and both you and your employer wish to go through the process of regularising their employment, you can certainly make the application. But understand that the approvability test for the employment vision of the general employment policy is going to dictate whether you ultimately get approved or not.
Okay. I hope you found this useful.
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This post deals with the requirements for getting permanent residency in Hong Kong
The modern, connected economy throws up myriad ways for people to organize their lives and business affairs and, as can be seen from this great question, how might ImmD respond to an application for the Right of Abode where an internet entrepreneur bases himself here with his family but they choose to spend a considerable amount of time elsewhere?
My wife and I first arrived here in April of 2011. I was on a working visa but in some ways it was similar to an investor visa. I have always been an online internet entrepreneur, opening, running and closing dozens of online businesses. They have always been run from an offshore “haven” location where essentially there is no need to maintain books or file annual tax returns.
As my citizenships don’t require me to pay taxes on worldwide income and as I had been essentially a resident of nowhere, basically a perpetual tourist for the past many years, I haven’t really had to settle down in any way.
So, in early 2011, upon hearing from me that I wanted to move to and settle into Hong Kong, my lawyer arranged for my offshore company to buy a defunct Hong Kong company and then have that Hong Kong company sponsor me for an employment based visa in Hong Kong.
That all seemed to work quite smoothly and I was in HK in just a few months from start to finish.
Since arriving in Hong Kong with my non-Hong Kong wife in early 2011, we have recently had a baby. The problem is that we like Hong Kong and have made it our primary home, renting a nice flat, sponsoring a live-in DH, moved our bank accounts here, receive all of our mail here, pay our salaries annual taxes here, I own the business here, pay its fees, rent an office, pay the business profits taxes, etc., etc. – basically spend a lot of money in Hong Kong for all of these things to put up the appearance of being a full-time resident.
But, we really don’t like spending all of our time in Hong Kong. We have homes in several other countries, whether our own or family homes, and I really don’t need to be in any one location in Hong Kong or anywhere to run my business affairs.
Until our children are required to be in school for 8-9 months of the year, I’d prefer to keep traveling.
My work is all done via laptop and cell phone. Arguably I could say that some of this travel is necessary for work, as I do meet or host clients from time to time, but maybe 1/3 at the very most and I don’t keep receipts or claim them as business expenses.
The only employees of the Hong Kong subsidiary are me and two admins, and they really only take care of Hong Kong affairs and little else. We do like spending some time in Hong Kong, maybe a few months per year in total, but spend the rest of our time on holiday, as much as 9-10 months of the year. I hope to continue this pattern until we have reached the 7 year mark in early 2018, at which time I’d like to apply for and hopefully receive our permanent residency.
And, despite what may seem like lack of ties to Hong Kong, we have by far much more attachments to Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world , though my wife and I are each dual nationals of two different countries (4 passports between the both of us) so we certainly would call Hong Kong home above all else.
Would this pattern jeopardize our permanent residency application? It would be precisely at this time, when 7 years will have been reached that we’ll finally be forced to settled down and set our oldest child into primary school and we would plan to do so in Hong Kong.
I do want to ultimately obtain PR status, but also want to spend most of my time until that time traveling abroad. I’d like to find out now rather than later, for if I am wasting my time with this and there is a chance my PR application would be rejected, I’d just as well give up the HK office, the HK business, the 2 admins, the rented flat, the DH, basically all of it, move everything back offshore and rent a suite at the four seasons for the 2 months of the year that I might actually be in Hong Kong, for it would be a LOT cheaper.
So, am I wasting my money continuing this charade for many more years or will it all work out in the end as long as I maintain all of the things that tie us to Hong Kong?
So, can I get Permanent Residency in Hong Kong?
ANSWER
The test for Right of Abode for a long stay foreign national resident of Hong Kong is to be able to show that you’ve been continuously and ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for a period of not less than seven years, and that any absences from Hong Kong in that time have been of a merely temporary nature as evidenced by what you leave behind to return back to at the end of each temporary stint abroad.
You also need to show that you have settled in Hong Kong at the time that you make your application for permanent residency. So on the facts that we’ve got in this question it would appear that you’ve actually got in place all the necessary presumptive evidence to denote that you are settled in Hong Kong.
The fact that you’ve got a home, the fact that your child was born in Hong Kong, you’ve got a full time sponsored foreign domestic helper, you’ve got your business in Hong Kong, you’re reporting for tax purposes in Hong Kong, you have an office and you’ve got a couple of employees, and on the basis and on the assumption that you continue to maintain all of that in situ for the rest of the time that you spend in Hong Kong, on the strength of that evidence, there is enough presumptive evidence to show that you are, for all practical purposes, settled in Hong Kong.
Now this then turns to the nub of the question, which is how much time is expected for you to be spending in Hong Kong to settle the idea of continuous ordinary residence. Continuity is, on the face of it, established through the maintenance of immigration status, residents immigration status back to back throughout all of that time; and therefore we then just need to look to the number of days and how that impacts on the perception of your notion of being settled up to and including the seven year mark. If you’ve got a really good reason for you spending a lot of time outside of Hong Kong, then the Immigration Department will accept that, for what it is ostensibly in the vast majority of cases this is settled through the fact that your commercial activities, your commercial endeavours whilst ostensibly based in Hong Kong are keeping you away from Hong Kong.
Question is then begged as to what about the situation where if you choose voluntarily to spend time away from Hong Kong because that’s what you prefer to do? And how would the Immigration Department perceive that as, in a sense, negating your idea of ordinary residence; the law, in actual fact, the common law, allows you to have a place of permanent residence, believe it or not, in two different places. You can be ordinarily resident in more than one place, any one point in time. But that’s an argument that you don’t really want to be having with the Immigration Department. What it’s better to do is to sort of lay down the necessary sort of tracks. Now anticipating that you’ll have a really good excuse at the seven year mark as to why you’ve spent all of the time outside of Hong Kong that you have given of course that that’s offset by the fact that you have everything else in place that shows that Hong Kong is effectively your only place of permanent residence, because of the facts on the ground that you’ve created in that time.
I also assume that at the time that you make your application, your child will be in school. And that’s again further good evidence as to the fact of settlement at the time that you make your application.
So it’s a tough one to definitively advise you on. However, my best advice would be anticipate that it’s the number of days in Hong Kong that are going to be the issue, and the time that you voluntarily choose to spend away from Hong Kong. And that’s something to a large degree you can control. The requirements are that the continuous, ordinary residents, effectively, are structured in such a way that even on the application form for Right of Abode, any absences that are less than six months don’t need detailing or specific explanation at the time that you commence your permanent residency processes.
But the Immigration Department will go through a tally to look to see effectively how much time you spent in Hong Kong and all of that time. So my best advice really would be carry on with what you’re doing but don’t spend a lot of time away, in large blocks.
If you can organise your affairs such that you can come into Hong Kong for a week every two or three months or so, prefer a little bit longer than that, and maintain that sort of profile throughout all of the time that you’re in Hong Kong.
And then perhaps when your child gets a little bit older and the opportunity for your child to go to preschool then put the child in preschool. Perhaps that would be, you know, when he’s, he or she is three or four years of age, and show that the child’s been in preschool, even though when he’s not in preschool you’ve chosen to be elsewhere.
So the saving grace, as you’ve quite properly identified, is that you’ve got in place all the infrastructure to suggest that Hong Kong is your, effectively your only place of permanent residence, and the challenge then is just to map out how you decide, to experience your lives over the course of the next five years, and the choices that you make in terms of how much time you decide to spend in Hong Kong, in terms of number of days and also the number of trips that you make back to Hong Kong.
I mean, really avoid staying away for several months at a time, continuously, because that kind of sends the wrong message. But if you are coming back on a regular basis, even if you choose just to spend a small amount of time when you’re back here, I think you’ll find that the profile that you’ll build up over the course of the next five years should see you in good stead. And you’ll want to be able to persuade the Immigration Department that you’ve passed the test for approvability for a permanent residency application.
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This post deals with the options for a Hong Kong Work Visa Holder who owns shares in a company but also intends to get enrolled in a full-time Masters Degree Programme
Hong Kong being the dynamic ‘all-things-to-all-people’ type of place it is, oftentimes, certain life circumstances here throw up immigration challenges that need to be considered carefully to ensure that you do not inadvertently run afoul of the law and end up doing things that are no commensurate with your formal conditions of stay.
This question presents a number of issues for consideration.
QUESTION
I have been working in Hong Kong for the past five years under an employment visa and need today to apply for a student visa as I am no longer employed by my current sponsor-employer of record during my studies (full-time Masters Degree programme) starting in August 2013.
However, I have recently established a company in Hong Kong and have shares in this company.
At first blush, this question appears kind of complicated. But, as you’ll discover as I work my way through the answer for you, it’s actually quite a straightforward situation. It will require you making a particular application to adjust your status, but, all things considered, it is quite straightforward.
So presently you hold an employment visa, and as an employment visa holder, if you are no longer working for your current employer, then you’re allowed to remain in Hong Kong until your current limit of stay expires, whereupon you’re expected to leave. However, if you wish to join in a full time course of study, then you will have to adjust your immigration status from sponsored employment through to student visa.
On the other hand, if it was a part-time course of study as an employment visa holder, you could participate in that part-time course of study without needing to make any further application to the Immigration Department at this time. And in fact, the immigration department generally don’t issue student visas for part-time courses of study. Sometimes they do, but generally they don’t. So what you’re left with is adjusting your status from sponsored employment through to student, and the grant of the student visa should be straightforward. And the university will no doubt assist you to that end because it’s a kind of run of the mill process for them.
Now, getting to the meat and potatoes of your question, which is if you are presently holding shares in a Hong Kong company, will it preclude you from getting a student visa? Well, we need to take a step back in any event, and look at your ability to hold shares in a Hong Kong limited liability company while you’re an employment visa holder.
Now, in the current policy, it’s perfectly okay for you to make an investment into either a public company or you need a private company and hold shares, those vehicles, so long as you are not actively engaged in the management and direction of that business. So if effectively, what you’ve done is acquired the shares in the company, and then you started to do some trading, or you’re starting to effectively engage in proper business activity with a partner or by yourself, then you need to be aware that, in any event, you would have to make an application to the Immigration Department to join an assigned business that your current immigration status. And normally, if you’re an employment visa holder, this requires you to get the consent of your existing employer to do this. But given that you’re no longer working for your current employer, obviously you’re not in a position to go about making an application to join in a side businessformally. Therefore, what you’re left with is a dichotomy because you can’t be a full time student and engage and manage a business; at the same time, Immigration Department are principally not going to allow you to do that.
Therefore, effectively, my advice to you would be to put on hold your plans for your business or training activity and concentrate on your studies full time. And then when you come out of your studies you can pick up the pace on your formal business activities, if indeed that’s what you’re planning to do.
In that regard, when you finish your student status upon graduation, you’ll be able to make an application under the immigration arrangements for non-local graduates, which effectively mean that without having to procure an employer sponsor or indeed notify the Immigration Department in any express terms what it is that you’re doing in the wake of your formal graduation from your student status, as it were.
Effectively what you can do is then embark on your own business activity if that’s what you plan to do through the company that you own. And, all of that activity effectively will be allowed to occur within twelve months after you’re finishing your formal course of study.
So finish your student visa, get yourself an immigration arrangement for non-local graduates approval, that will then effectively, if I’ve done the mathematics right, give you about two and a half years from now, and that, as you can appreciate together with the five and a half years or so that you’ve been in Hong Kong five years as it were, is going to take you well past the seven year mark.
So when you are at the full seven years you can make an application for the right of abodeand all the time that you’ve spent as a student and indeed subsequently as a holder of an immigration arrangements non-local graduates visa, that will allow your continuous ordinary residence to be maintained at all times. So you’ll be able to adjust your status from temporary residence through to permanent residency and you’ll secure the right of abode.
So all things considered, you’re in pretty good shape, but what you need to be very mindful of is exactly what it is that you’re going to be doing in relation to the company that you hold shares in whilst you’re a student visa holder.
At the very, very least you need to make an application to the Immigration Department to get their permission to engage in any kind of business activity whilst you’re a student visa holder in relation to your own company. But my best advice is based on prior experience in this area, it’s just to put your head down, get on with your studies, adjust from student through to immigration arrangements for non-local graduates. No further recourse at that time to the Immigration Department for permissions to join in the business that you own shares of and, once you get to the seven year mark, you’ll be able to convert through to permanent residency.
And the issue of you holding shares in the company should never present itself as a problem. I hope that helps.
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Life in Hong Kong throws up many new opportunities and this question seeks to understand the implications for 7 years continuous residency in respect of an eventual right of abode application where an overall switch over in life plans sees a lady intending to relinquish her employment visa for a student or dependant visa …
QUESTION
I am a Canadian citizen living in HK. I have an employment visa and want to leave my job. My fiancee (Canadian citizen) has an employment visa and we will be married in 10 months.
1. Can I leave my job (my employment visa has been extended until 2014), stay in HK on my employment visa until the wedding, and then transfer my visa to a Dependent visa linked to my husband?
2. Will this 10 month gap of non-employment, (even though I have 2 valid years left on the employment visa) count as a break in the 7 year continuous living requirement for permanent residency? I will remain in HK.
3. Will a dependent visa still count towards permanent residency?
4. Does permanent residency need to come from only one type of visa, or can it come from multiple visas?
5. Is there any benefit to having an employment visa over a dependent visa for permanent residency or privileges as a HK resident?
6. Can I attend a HK based university under the employment visa or must I change the visa to a student visa?
7. Will the time between the date of resignation and the beginning of my student visa (if I choose to do this, possibly 4-6 months) break the continuous living requirement for permanent residency?
ANSWER
I really love it when questions like this are laid out so logically and sequentially because I can just get to the height of the question without worrying too much about the facts to ensure that my advice is as accurate as it can be. So, cracking on number one question, the answer is yes. The moment you stop working for your current employer, your ability to continue to work in Hong Kong ceases at the point of your employment termination, but the privilege to resign continues on.
So, as long as in that time you’re maintaining all the vestiges of settlement in Hong Kong, then for all practical purposes the fact that you are not going to be working whilst you have an employment visa with a limited stay that’s still valid should not break your continuity of residence, specifically or particularly if you’re going to be preparing for nuptials in that time.
So, yes, you can transfer from employment visa to a dependent visa and expect that it’s not going to break the continuity of residence, which effectively answers your second question, as long as, as I said, you can show that all throughout this time you have been continuingly engaged in activities that can be said to suggest that you are settled in Hong Kong, and, as I said, preparing for your nuptials to a Hong Kong resident is certainly good evidence of this. So, yes, you’ll be fine in that regard.
The time spent as a dependent visa holder will definitely count towards permanent residency, so long as you’re going from your employment visa into your dependent visa back to back any state of administrative flux in relation to your change of immigration status should not preclude you from qualifying/having that time qualify under the seven year rule.
In reply to your question four – effectively you need a residence visa, and that residence visa can be reflected in any kind of visa other than visitor or indeed any of the other categories, such as a foreign domestic helper or if you’ve been admitted under the supplementary labour scheme. People admitted under these programmes do not have the privilege of being able to count time spent as a whole holder of that type of visa for the purposes of continuous ordinary residence. So, yeah, going from one employment visa to a dependent visa is not going to be a problem for you.
I think I’ve answered the question five – if there’s any benefit in having employment visa or the dependent visa for permanent residence privileges of Hong Kong resident. No, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s all about the act of settlement.
In reply to your question number 6 – Well, under the employment visa, you’re entitled to join in a part time course of study. If it’s your intention to engage in a full time course of study, then you need to relinquish your employment visa and change to a student visa. So for all practical purposes, in your circumstances, time spent as a student, which would then subsequently adjust to dependent (once you’ve got the marriage to your fiance out of the way) all of that will count as good time for ordinary residence purposes when it comes to your right of abode application.
Subsequently, and finally, the answer to your last question is again no. As long as you can show that you’re engaged in the act of settlement or continuing engagement in the act of settlement throughout all of this time, then it will not break your continuous ordinary residence for the purposes of a right of abode application.
Problems only ever come into play with breaking continuous ordinary residence, if you effectively relinquish your residence visa status and don’t do anything about reinvoking it or reinstating it, I should say within a very quick period of time after it’s expired. But if you’ve got continuous back to back residence visas throughout all of this time, and the ordinary pattern of your life suggests that you have been settled in Hong Kong throughout all of this time and in fact, any absences from Hong Kong during this time have been of a nearly temporary nature, as evidenced by what you leave behind to return back to at the end of your temporary sojourn abroad. And at the time that you make your application for permanent residency, you can show that you’ve got back to back tenancy agreements or you’ve got residential accommodation arrangements in place, for example, such that you bought your own property. And you can show that as long as you can show that you’ve got your tax returns all in good order and that, for all practical purposes, you’ve got an obvious manifest pattern of normal continuous ornament residence in Hong Kong throughout those seven years. The plans as you set them out for me in your list of seven questions suggest that you won’t have any problems at all when it comes time to making your application proponent identity card.
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