Can I Apply for a Residence Visa for Hong Kong While I Am Visiting?
Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Hadley Says…, Investment Visas, Special Programmes / 2 responses
In making your decision about making your Hong Kong residence visa application from inside or outside of Hong Kong you really need to consider:
• That some types of visa applications such as Mainland Talents and Permanent Residency require you to be specifically inside or outside of Hong Kong when you apply but for most cases it doesn’t matter where you are.
• As a visitor, how many days are you allowed to remain in Hong Kong each stay as it take 7-8 weeks for a residence visa application to be finalised and you don’t want to be running across to Shenzhen or Macau every 1 or 2 weeks to get your visitor visa extended as you wait for the Hong Kong ID to tell you the result.
• You are not advantaged or disadvantaged in any way by where you are when your application is submitted as the HKID will treat the case the same way in any event.
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The Hong Kong Visa Geeza (a.k.a Stephen Barnes) is a co-founder of the Hong Kong Visa Centre and author of the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. A law graduate of the London School of Economics, Stephen has been practicing Hong Kong immigration since 1993 and is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on business immigration matters here for the last 24 years.
