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Musing

A Detailed Business Plan For Your Hong Kong Investment Visa? – Not Really…

November 25th, 2024

Posted by / in Investment Visas, Musing, VG Front Page / 1 response

I always stifle a chuckle when I read on the websites of professional service providers offering a Hong Kong visa and immigration product that there is a need for a ‘detailed business plan’ in each and every Hong Kong investment visa application. It’s simply not true. Certainly, every applicant for an investment visa needs to […]

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Why Don’t Immigration Consultants Typically Help Aspiring Employees Find Jobs In Hong Kong?

October 30th, 2024

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Hadley Says… / 4 responses

Given that some countries, like Australia, organise their immigration policy to address skills gaps in their economies with specific temporary visa types, you might expect that Hong Kong would have a thriving job finding + visa service industry. We do, after all, issue more than 17,000 new employment visa approvals each year under the General […]

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What Are You Really Buying From A Hong Kong Immigration Consultant?

September 17th, 2023

Posted by / in 60 Second Snapshot, Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / 9 responses

What Do You Get For Your Money When You Instruct A Hong Kong Immigration Consultant? First Published 2012 (11 Years Ago – Look How Young I Am!) Should You Pay or Shouldn’t You Pay? Do you need a Hong Kong Immigration Consultant? There is sooooo much chatter on public forums about the value that a […]

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Musing

The Industry Secret Most Hong Kong Immigration Consultants Don’t Want You to Discover

August 28th, 2023

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 31 responses

What Hong Kong Immigration Consultants Like To Keep Quiet About … All cases are ‘hard’, right? Lifting The Lid [Looking around furtively…] Shussh… You are probably paying Hong Kong immigration consultants too much for your Hong Kong visa service. It’s true, and here’s the reason why. Hard vs Easy Your ‘easy’ Hong Kong visa application […]

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How To Engage The Hong Kong Visa Centre If Your Application Has Been Refused By The Immigration Department

July 15th, 2023

Posted by / in 60 Second Snapshot, Feature Article, Refusals & Appeals / 7 responses

Your Application Has Been Refused By The Immigration Department? It is a terrible feeling to have your Hong Kong visa application rejected by the Immigration Department and you may by now, be wishing that perhaps you would have been better off seeking professional help from the outset after all. Your Application Has Been Refused By […]

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Paying for Visa Help? The Who’s-Who of the Hong Kong Immigration Services Profession

July 11th, 2023

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Infographic, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 30 responses

Hong Kong Immigration Services – Who’s Who? Hong Kong immigration services attract a large collection of professional service practitioners – and the quality can be massively variable. It seems a bit ‘blow-your-own-trumpet-like’ to say this, but are able to monitor and track who uses our websites and a lof of those folks who sell a […]

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Do Immigration Consultants Add Any Value To The Hong Kong Visa Process?

June 18th, 2023

Posted by / in Family Visas, Hadley Says…, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / 11 responses

It’s a valid question. Do immigration consultants add any value to the Hong Kong visa process? As the programming of VisaGeeza.Ai draws to a close, ready to release to my website users, the whole exercise down the last 5 months has surfaced a significant body of content which is still as relevant today as it was when […]

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The Foibles of Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Applications That Only Experience Can Fully Appreciate

April 3rd, 2023

Posted by / in 60 Second Snapshot, Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Special Programmes, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / 4 responses

The foibles of Hong Kong visa & immigration applications that only experience can fully appreciate – I originally published this post on April 29, 2013 and updated it on April 3, 2023…10 years on – some things never change… Hong Kong immigration & visa applications: both the Hong Kong Visa Handbook and the accompanying updates posted […]

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Musing

Interview: What Was It Like Being An Immigration Consultant in Hong Kong During the Time of SARS?

June 17th, 2019

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Special Programmes, VG Front Page, Visitor Visas / 8 responses

First Published July 18, 2013 On June 6th, 2013 I was interviewed by five law students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong about my experiences practicing immigration here over the last 20 years. We covered a great deal of ground in the 90 minutes we spent together and over the next few weeks I […]

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Musing

Why Pay For Professional Help in Your Hong Kong QMAS Application When You Really Can Do It All By Yourself!

May 21st, 2019

Posted by / in Musing, Special Programmes / 17 responses

On this Blog, I normally eschew talking about my professional practice, how we provide services and how our fees are structured. Both this website and the Hong Kong Visa Handbook are ‘sell free’ zones. These 2 websites are designed to provide you with professional quality visa and immigration resources so that you can make fully informed […]

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