New Content Daily Sign Up Here

Musing

Can You Use the Foreign Domestic Helper Visa to Employ Your Mother in Hong Kong?

March 20th, 2022

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Musing, Special Programmes, Your Question Answered / 2 responses


 

The Hong Kong Immigration Department are not especially receptive to what can appear to be family reunion via the back door…

SMALL-keep-calm-and-ask-the-visa-geeza

Can you use the Foreign Domestic Helper visa to employ your mother in Hong Kong?

QUESTION

Hello,

My wife and I are on work visas in Hong Kong and are expecting a baby in the Autumn.

My wife would like to keep working, and wants to bring her mother over (she is from Central America) to look after the baby, possibly for up to a year.

Her mother would only be eligible for a 30-day visitor visa.

Could we employ her as a domestic helper?

Do we have any other options?

Thanks!

More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting

What kind of visa can we get so my FDH girlfriend (contract terminated) can stay with me in Hong Kong?

How can I convert my Foreign Domestic Helper visa into a dependant visa after marriage to a Hong Kong permanent resident?

Can children born in Hong Kong to Foreign Domestic Helpers get dependant visas?

Right of Abode in Hong Kong for Foreign Domestic Helpers – it was all so-inevitable really…

Is it ever possible to convert a Foreign Domestic Helper visa into a regular employment visa in Hong Kong?

PODCAST ANSWER

Play

VISIT OUR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE or VISIT OUR FREE D-I-Y VISA GUIDE

Please select the social network you want to share this page with:

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.

YOU MIGHT LIKE...
RESPONSES

HAVE YOUR SAY

CommentLuv badge