My Daily Happenings

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Jul 2022

How To Become An Entrepreneur In Hong Kong – 60 Minute Presentation

Posted by / in Feature Article, Investment Visas, Musing, VG Front Page / 2 responses

Last Thursday, July 7 2022, I participated in a hosted Webinar on How To Become An Entrepreneur in Hong Kong. This one hour presentation was hosted by banking services provider Statrys and supported by my colleague Will Probert of Zzzzip. The material itself is self-explanatory and I hope you find it helpful in understanding how […]

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Mar 2022

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

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… 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 […]

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Mar 2022

Can I Extend My Hong Kong Visitor Visa Due to Travel Difficulties Caused By COVID19?

Posted by / in COVID CHRONICLES, Musing, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / No responses

Can I Extend My Hong Kong Visitor Visa Due to Travel Difficulties Caused By COVID19? What’s the deal if you come to Hong Kong as a visitor,  seeking to remain in Hong Kong as a visitor due to COVID19, such that you can’t “come and go” in the normal fashion that people historically have done, […]

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Feb 2022

How A Hong Kong Right of Abode Application Plays Out

Posted by / in Long Stay & PR, Musing / 2 responses

How A Hong Kong Right of Abode Application Plays Out (Reprise) I am grateful to a user of our websites who has sent me this report of his experience in his right of abode application recently to share with everyone. 28/01/2021 ROP145 submitted online (as Chinese citizen holding foreign passport, with one period of continuous […]

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Feb 2022

Immigration Department Service Disruptions Until (Further Notice)

Posted by / in Musing / 57 responses

Immigration Department Service Disruptions Immigration Department Service Disruptions (For At Least Until February 11, 2022)   IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OUR CLIENTS Due to the latest situation of coronavirus, the Immigration Department is offering a limited service currently. Please see the arrangement below for your reference. ImmD will announce their updated service arrangement next week. We […]

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May 2021

UPDATE: Hong Kong – Singapore Travel Bubble Will NOT Start May 26, 2021

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

UPDATE: May 17, 2021 – due to recent new wave of COVID19 infections in Singapore the bubble has once again been postponed – likely to June sometime – watch this space. Never easy is it? Travel Bubble Website Here   UPDATE: April 26, 2021 – At a Press Conference today Edward Yau announced the following […]

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May 2021

Hong Kong Immigration… What Does It Mean… Twilight Zone?

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, Special Programmes / 2 responses

First Published June 25, 2015 Over the last 20 years or so I have coined a number of phrases in Hong Kong immigration parlance. In this short video, I discuss the Hong Kong visa Twilight Zone. More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting Hong Kong immigration… what does it mean…Swapping Status? Hong Kong immigration… what […]

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Apr 2021

Please Don’t Ask Me To Advise You On How To Break Hong Kong Immigration Law!

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Feature Article, Musing, Your Question Answered / No responses

First Published Years Ago!   I get loads of great questions to answer and it’s my genuine pleasure to help. Sometimes, though, people don’t appreciate what it is they are actually asking me to be a party to when they seek my advice via our websites.. So please don’t ask me to advise you on […]

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Nov 2020

Return2hk – Quarantine Travel Scheme for Hong Kong Residents

Posted by / in Feature Article, Musing, VG Front Page / No responses

Fast moving – no experience with it yet – here is the Government blurb … Introduction Pursuant to section 12 and 12A of the Compulsory Quarantine of Certain Persons Arriving at Hong Kong Regulation (the Regulation) (Cap. 599C), the Secretary for Food and Health would specify Guangdong Province and Macao as Category 2 specified places in […]

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