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How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – Are You Truly Settled in Hong Kong?

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10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application At the time the Hong Kong Immigration Department are asked to verify your eligibility for a permanent identity card, not only must you have been continuously and ordinarily resident in the HKSAR for at least 7 years, but you also need to […]

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

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10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application As we have seen, in order for a long stay foreign national resident to be able to qualify for the right of abode in Hong Kong, he or she must have held a residence visa throughout all of the 7 years claimed. […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – 7 Years… Starting When?

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 10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application Given that the approvability test for “continuous ordinary residence” is essentially so flexible, it is reasonable to assume that the commencement date of the 7 years runs from the time that you first landed in Hong Kong and can objectively be assessed […]

How To Apply for the Right of Abode in Hong Kong – Without Any Professional Help – “Continuous Ordinary Residence”?

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10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application By definition, continuous ordinary residence is exactly that. For the purposes of the right of abode in Hong Kong, continuity of residence, at the very least, anticipates back to back residence visas of any such kind that qualify. This excludes certain types […]

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

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10 Must Have Resources for A Successful Hong Kong Right of Abode Application For long stay foreign nationals in Hong Kong, the approvability test for the right of abode is to show that you have been continuously and ordinarily resident here for a period of not less than 7 years. You also need to demonstrate […]

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

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  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

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 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

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 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!

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 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

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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 […]