Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

The Visa Geeza on RTHK Radio Three – July 2014

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, Visitor Visas / No responses

Back to see el-Maestro Whelan at RTHK Radio 3 yesterday – in the stinking hot showery weather to boot! Enjoyed my bi-monthly 15 minutes of fame with Phil early yesterday afternoon and discussed at length the further toughening of ImmD on business investment visa applicants. We also talked a lot about the Shenzhen Shutttle and went over […]

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UPDATE! If You Are Applying For a Hong Kong Business Investment Visa You Must See This!

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing, Resource / 6 responses

An occasional important update from the Hong Kong Visa Centre Two weeks ago, we had 3 business investment visas all refused on the same day. It is clear that the Hong Kong Immigration Department have recently gotten a lot tougher. If you intend to apply for a Hong Kong business investment visa, you must watch […]

Investment Visas, the Catch 22, Multi-Level Marketing & What the Hong Kong Immigration Department Do Instead of Saying NO!

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PRACTICE UPDATE: How the content must now be read in light of current ImmD policy: Historically, this advisory installment unmasked one of the Immigration Department’s most classic administrative tactics: the procedural “Catch-22” and attrition strategy deployed when dealing with applications it disfavored—specifically multi-level marketing (MLM), direct sales, or fringe trading models—without issuing an immediate statutory […]

InvestHK Israel Roadshow Comes to End With Some Amazing Israeli Tech Businesses On Their Way to Hong Kong

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The InvestHK Israel Roadshow came to an end yesterday… I have just had the most amazing 5 days in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem meeting with dozens of Israeli tech companies each with an eye on coming to set up in here Hong Kong. The depth of tech prowess from young Israelis, most of which is […]

InvestHK Israel Roadshow – the Hong Kong Visa Geeza Does It Tough!

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It’s a tough life helping to promote inward investment to Hong Kong, but someone has to do it… More Stuff You May Find Useful or Interesting 1. INFOGRAPHIC – One Man Investment Visa for Hong Kong 2. PDF – Information on the Hong Kong Business Investment Visa 3. PLAN – The Hong Kong Visa Application Roadmap 4. CASE […]

The Hong Kong Immigration Department Really Are Getting Tougher Across the Board Now…

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 3 responses

It has taken me 21 years to make this claim…  I have been practicing in Hong Kong immigration advisory matters since 1993. All down those years, I have been asked countless times “is Immigration getting harder?’ and unflinchingly I have answered ‘no’. It has always been my experience that if you have an approvable case […]

New Company Law in Hong Kong Impacts Entrepreneurs, Startups and Business Investment Visa Applicants

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing /

PRACTICE UPDATE: How the content must now be read in light of current ImmD policy: Historically, this analysis examined the enactment of Hong Kong’s new Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622)—which overhauled corporate administration by abolishing par value for shares, streamlining company formations, introducing statutory declarations of solvency, and requiring at least one natural person director—and framed […]

How Can Hong Kong Technology Startups Improve Their Chances of Winning Investment Visa Approvals for Their Founders?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in 60 Second Snapshot, Employment Visas, Investment Visas / 1 response

So you’re now committed to getting your Startup off the ground here in Hong Kong… PRACTICE UPDATE: How the content must now be read in light of current ImmD policy: This article’s examination of the conflict between “Lean Startup” methodology (bootstrapping, remote teams, sweat equity) and ImmD expectations has shifted from a cautionary note to […]

Interview: What’s Actually Involved in Getting a Hong Kong Investment Visa Approved?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Investment Visas, Musing / 3 responses

PRACTICE UPDATE: How the content must now be read in light of current ImmD policy: Historically, this interview feature laid bare the practical, real-world mechanics of getting an Investment as Entrepreneur visa approved under the General Employment Policy (GEP). The Geeza walked an interviewer through the anatomy of an application, demystifying the official statutory standard […]

Interview: Do You Think the Relatively Low Number of Foreigners Coming to Live and Work in Hong Kong is Due to it Being Hard to Get a Visa?

Posted by The Visa Geeza / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes / 12 responses

Coming to live and work in Hong Kong – 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 […]