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How Can You Extend Your Hong Kong Work Visa if Your Passport Is About to Expire?

March 4th, 2024

Posted by / 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?

Extend Your Hong Kong Work Visa

QUESTION

Hello,

My passport is currently being renewed but my Hong Kong work visa runs out very soon. 

However I cannot start the visa extension application process without a new passport.  

I am worried my visa will expire before the application is complete. 

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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  • T

    5 Aug 2023 am31 12:24am
    01

    Thanks for this info. you are a life saver

  • LG

    21 May 2021 am31 10:39am
    02

    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

      28 May 2021 am31 10:03am
      03

      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

    18 Jan 2021 pm31 4:28pm
    04

    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

      26 Jan 2021 pm31 2:25pm
      05

      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.

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