Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – Are You A Foreign National?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Musing / 9 responses

  10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application There are in fact several categories of individuals under the basic law who are eligible for consideration for the right of abode in Hong Kong (relating mostly to Chinese nationals) but this presentation is limited to just one type of person, namely, […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – 10 Must Have Resources

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Musing / 8 responses

 10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application To properly start off the presentation you need to appreciate that on the home page of our Blog, the Hong Kong Visa Geeza, you will find this resource – it’s called TEN MUST HAVE RESOURCES FOR A SUCCESSFUL HONG KONG PERMANENT RESIDENCY […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – Order of Business

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Musing / 10 responses

 10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application There are essentially 7 areas of consideration when making an application for the right of abode in Hong Kong and the cut and thrust of this talk will address each of these in turn. Naturally enough you need to know exactly what […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – No Need to Take Notes!

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Musing / 10 responses

 10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application This presentation has been designed to serve as the anchor or reference point in making your own application for a Hong Kong Permanent Identity Card. You will find along with each slide, not only my narrative on each segment, but also links […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – Introduction

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Musing, Resource / 26 responses

10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application This 15 segment presentation is designed to empower long term foreign national residents of Hong Kong to remove all their current immigration conditions and go on to become permanent residents. Permanent residency is derived from the Hong Kong Basic Law and, once […]

Will Redundancy Impact Your Eligibility for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Your Question Answered / 8 responses

QUESTION Hi there, you provide a very helpful advice service, so thank you for that!  I have a few questions which I would like your advice on: 1. I have 1.5 years left towards my Right of Abode in Hong Kong application (been working in Hong Kong 5.5 years), but was recently laid off. Still […]

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The Visa Geeza on RTHK Radio Three – Jan 2013

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Family Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing / 1 response

Phil @ RTHK very kindly had me back in the hot seat on Monday and, no sooner had I sat down, he had us off to the races. We talked a great deal about the Right of Abode and the Right to Land today – and also prolonged visitor visa for a Defacto Spouse. You […]

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I Worked in Hong Kong for 4 Years – then Left for 2 – and Have a Valid Visa in My Passport – Can I Still Work & then Apply for PR?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Your Question Answered / 7 responses

For many foreign national residents, it can take a couple of runs at living in Hong Kong before they catch the bug and realise they want to call the HKSAR their permanent home. Inadvertently, however, such folks can break their continuity of residence and also find themselves back to square one when it comes to […]

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It Took Me Almost 12 Months to Settle in Hong Kong After My QMAS Approval – When Does the 7 Year Clock Start Ticking for the Right of Abode?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Long Stay & PR, Special Programmes, Your Question Answered / No responses

The Quality Migrant Admission Scheme provides the successful applicant with a window of time after approval to make arrangements to move to Hong Kong and, after the first year, an extension is only available on the basis you can show that you have ‘settled’ here. It is this act of settlement that holds the key […]

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Will Any Time You Spend in Hong Kong as a Visitor Count Towards the Magic 7 Years for the Right of Abode?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Hadley Says…, Long Stay & PR / 24 responses

To get the Right of Abode in Hong Kong you need to: – Spend seven years continuously resident in the HKSAR – Have taken Hong Kong as your only place of permanent residence – Be obviously settled here, and – Have no outstanding taxation liabilities Moreover, you need to have held a resident visa in […]