All About Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship
Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Musing, Sherpa / 4 responses
There is a great deal of confusion about Hong Kong employment visa sponsorship and this short video cuts through all the noise and sets it out definitively.
All About Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship
There is a great deal of confusion about Hong Kong employment visa sponsorship and this short video cuts through all the noise and sets it out definitively.
Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship Comes With 2 Privileges
Your employment visa comes with 2 privileges under Hong Kong immigration law. You get the privilege to work and the privilege to reside.
Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship – What Happens If You Quit Your Job For Any Reason?
If you stop working for the employer sponsoring your work visa, your privilege to work ends but your privilege to reside continues until your visa limit of stay expires. Upon the expiry of your visa, you are expected to leave. After leaving your employer you can reinstate your privilege to work again before your visa expires by making an application to change your employment visa sponsorship once you have a new job offer. Your privilege to work extends only to the work you do for your sponsoring employer and no other party, including yourself, paid or unpaid, part time, some time or full time. This means you can only work for your work visa sponsor and no other party.
Hong Kong Employment Visa Sponsorship – What Happens If I Want To Start My Own Business?
This video also speaks to changing your visa category to business investment as an entrepreneur in the event you wish to start a business of your own. In such a case here is the business investment visa test for approval.
Ending Note
The bottom line is that your ability to work lgeally is tied to your employment visa sponsorship if you possess an employment visa issued under the General Employment Policy. There are certain exceptions if you have earned HKD2 million or more in previous tax year and upgraded your status to Top Tier Stream, hold an IANG visa or have been admitted under the Top Talent Pass Scheme – all which have visa sponsorship playing a minor role in visa holder lawful employability.
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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.
Elizabeth
Hi Stephen,
I hope you’re well. I’ve been reading some of the thread and you’ve provided so many invaluable insight for non-locals like ourselves. Thank you for being great help to the expat community here in HK!
I do have a question regarding my IANG/Dependent Visa-PR transition situation.
I am a current IANG visa holder until May 2022, and I’m planning to get a two-year renewal with the same employer.
I am a sponsor for my husband and with the anticipated 2 year renewal, he will have met the 7 year rule of becoming PR in June 2023. Having said that, if we were to leave Hong Kong from between June 2022 to June 2023, is he still eligible to applying for it?
Does holding a valid visa for that given period automatically grant us PR irregardless of the fact that we may be physically out of Hong Kong?
Also, will I be granted PR even though technically, I have been in HK for more than 7 consecutive years but I haven’t got a proper visa in between?
Thank you for your time!
The Visa Geeza
Hello – thanks for your kind words:
Does holding a valid visa for that given period automatically grant us PR irregardless of the fact that we may be physically out of Hong Kong?
No definitely not. Mere possession of a qualifying residence visa doesn’t equate with ‘ordinary residence’ (it’s just a stamp in a passport after after all). ImmD will want to know at the time of your PR application that you have not taken any step which equates to you abandoning your ordinary residence in Hong Kong. As I don’t know your circumstances I can’t offer anything more concrete I’m afraid. Every case is different.
Also, will I be granted PR even though technically, I have been in HK for more than 7 consecutive years but I haven’t got a proper visa in between?
You need to have had back to back residence visas for a full 7 years looking back from the day your apply for PR.
EA
Hi.. i would like to ask if its really take more than 4 months to wait for the approval of working visa?
My sponsor company were the one who apply for my working visa last june 15 and up to now still in process
Is it really take that long or should i withdraw it and find another job
Pls help me
The Visa Geeza
Yes it can,. Especially in today’s security environment in HK.