How Can You Extend Your Hong Kong Work Visa if Your Passport Is About to Expire?
Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Musing / 5 responses
How can you extend your Hong Kong work visa if your passport  has only a very limited amount of time remaining on it before it expires?
QUESTION
Hello,
My passport is currently being renewed but my Hong Kong work visa runs out very soon.Â
However I cannot start the visa extension application process without a new passport. Â
I am worried my visa will expire before the application is complete.Â
Does immigration allow special extensions for such circumstances?
ANSWER
This situation would occur a lot more frequently than you might imagine and the Immigration Department have a very straightforward way of dealing with it; essentially, what you do is that you start your extension application with your old passport details – the application should be submitted within 30 days of the expiry of your current Hong Kong employment visa limit of stay, and at the same time, you submit proof of your new passport application to the Immigration Department as part of that extension exercise.
This inputs the Immigration Department that there is a new travel document in process and they will wait until the issue of your new passport in order to finalise your new extension that will go into your new passport.
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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.
T
Thanks for this info. you are a life saver
LG
Hi,
My HK visa is expiring sep 2022 (also my passport expires on the same month). but, I need to renew new passport now due to exhaustion of pages. But, I remember i signed a letter during my HK visa application saying that i don’t extend my visa until my current passport expires. in this case, can i apply for renew on new passport.
The Visa Geeza
Yes. This has no bearing on your eventual transfer of your residence visa to your new passport. You exit and enter on your HKID card after all.
VP
Hi,
My HK visa expires in Feb 2021 and I want it to be extended for 3 years. The problem is that my passport expires in April 2023 so the extension will surpass the passport’s validity. In many countries such as the US, the visa is given regardless of the validity of the passport. Is that the case with Hong Kong? If I do apply for an extension of 3 years, will my request be granted even though my passport expires before the visa does? Please reply asap.
The Visa Geeza
ImmD will only grant you a limit of stay up to the validity of your passport. If you want a 3 year extension get a new passport before you apply.