Hong Kong Visas Made Easy

What Can You Do to Get a Longer Period of Stay if the Hong Kong Visitor Visa Granted at CLK Airport Doesn’t Meet Your Needs?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Family Visas, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered / 3 responses

Hong Kong visitor visa? Whilst Hong Kong affords very generous visitor-visa-upon arrival arrangements to almost 200 foreign nationalities, sometimes the limit of stay you receive at the airport or boundaries is not enough – so what can you do to get a longer period of stay?

The trick is to apply for an extended visa before arrival.

QUESTION

Hello,

My sister is living in Japan, but holds a Russian passport.

She is coming to Hong Kong  to visit me and she wants to stay with me for 7 weeks.

But Russian passport holders may stay in Hong Kong for 2 weeks each time only.

Is it possible to extend her visa till 7 weeks?  If she will show her return ticket and also explain the reason why she wants to stay here for 7 weeks (the reason is that 2 weeks for us to be together is not enough as we want to spend more time together).

Also, she’s coming with her 2 years old daughter who is holding a Japanese passport  (as I know that Japanese passport holders may stay in Hong Kong  for 90 days) so her daughter no need to extend anything.

Is it possible to extend my sister’s visa in one time ?

Thanks

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10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application – The Start Up Visa

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing / No responses

On April 21, 2017 I gave a talk at WYND Co-working space in Lan Kwai Fong entitled 10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application.

 

This short video discusses the so-called Startup Visa.

The Rest of the Series

Introduction

How We Got Here

Must Have Resources

The Startup Visa

Step 1 – Understand Policy

Step 2 – Do You Have a Visa Problem?

Step 3 – Are You An Employee?

Step 4 – A Substantial Contribution?

Step 5 – 3 Crucial Elements

Step 6 – Have You Got Enough $$?

Step 7 – A Properly Set Up Office

Step 8 – Creating Local Jobs

Step 9 – Economic Sector Advantages?

Step 10 – D-I-Y Application

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Accredited Startup Programmes in Hong Kong

 

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10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application – Must Have Resources

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing / No responses

On April 21, 2017 I gave a talk at WYND Co-working space in Lan Kwai Fong entitled 10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application.

 

This short video discusses how the anchor to this talk is a post in our website called Must Have Resources for this type of visa application

The Rest of the Series

Introduction

How We Got Here

Must Have Resources

The Startup Visa

Step 1 – Understand Policy

Step 2 – Do You Have a Visa Problem?

Step 3 – Are You An Employee?

Step 4 – A Substantial Contribution?

Step 5 – 3 Crucial Elements

Step 6 – Have You Got Enough $$?

Step 7 – A Properly Set Up Office

Step 8 – Creating Local Jobs

Step 9 – Economic Sector Advantages?

Step 10 – D-I-Y Application

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Accredited Startup Programmes in Hong Kong

 

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10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application – How We Got Here

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing / No responses

On April 21, 2017 I gave a talk at WYND Co-working space in Lan Kwai Fong entitled 10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application.

 

This short video sets out the background to the entrepreneur vs startup visa situation which prevails in Hong Kong today.

The Rest of the Series

Introduction

How We Got Here

Must Have Resources

The Startup Visa

Step 1 – Understand Policy

Step 2 – Do You Have a Visa Problem?

Step 3 – Are You An Employee?

Step 4 – A Substantial Contribution?

Step 5 – 3 Crucial Elements

Step 6 – Have You Got Enough $$?

Step 7 – A Properly Set Up Office

Step 8 – Creating Local Jobs

Step 9 – Economic Sector Advantages?

Step 10 – D-I-Y Application

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Accredited Startup Programmes in Hong Kong

 

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10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application – Introduction

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing / No responses

On April 21, 2017 I gave a talk at WYND Co-working space in Lan Kwai Fong entitled 10 Steps to a Successful Hong Kong Entrepreneur Visa Application.

 

This short video sets out the introduction to the talk.

The Rest of the Series

Introduction

How We Got Here

Must Have Resources

The Startup Visa

Step 1 – Understand Policy

Step 2 – Do You Have a Visa Problem?

Step 3 – Are You An Employee?

Step 4 – A Substantial Contribution?

Step 5 – 3 Crucial Elements

Step 6 – Have You Got Enough $$?

Step 7 – A Properly Set Up Office

Step 8 – Creating Local Jobs

Step 9 – Economic Sector Advantages?

Step 10 – D-I-Y Application

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Presentation Slides

Accredited Startup Programmes in Hong Kong

 

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Last 5 Years – the Top 10 Resources of the Hong Kong Visa Geeza Website & the Size of Our Tribe!

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Resource, Special Programmes, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / No responses

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 AND thought you might be interested in the top ten most visited articles / sections of this website over the last five years:

 

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The key takeaways from these numbers is that in the last 5 years almost 170,000 people have used this website visiting on average just over 3 pages each user staying approximately 1 minute on average on each page. Our content has been displayed three quarters of a million times in that time.

 

1. Checking the status of your Hong Kong visa application online – Yeah Right!

2. Redundancy – The Process Pitfalls of an Expiring Hong Kong Employment Visa

3. Why I hate the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (and you should too!)

4. I’ve lost my job – what about my employment visa – will I get kicked out of Hong Kong?

5. What happens if you overstay your Hong Kong visa limit of stay?

6. How do you go about changing your employment visa sponsorship down at Immigration Tower?

7. Ask Me a Question!

8. Starting a business in Hong Kong

9. How do you go about applying for a Reconsideration of a previously refused Hong Kong employment visa application?

10. Must Have resources for a successful Hong Kong permanent residency application

Can I Get a Hong Kong Dependant Visa for My Same Sex Partner Now That We Are Legally Married?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Family Visas, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered / No responses

Hong Kong dependant visa for my same sex partner?

How is a legal marriage between same sex partners considered by the Hong Kong Immigration Department?

QUESTION

I am a Hong Kong permanent resident but not currently living in the HKSAR. 

I am considering re-locating to Hong Kong and would like to bring my husband with me.

We are a same-sex married couple.  We have a Civil-Partnership from Manchester, UK, granted in October 2012 and were also married in New York, USA in June of  2013.

Would it be possible for me to sponsor my husband as my dependent in Hong Kong? 

My husband is a British citizen.  Would it be possible to gain entitlement for my husband to work?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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