QOTW: Can You Stay As a Visitor While Processing a Hong Kong Work Visa Application?
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Lots of visa gossip and rumours in Hong Kong and we can safely add the following question to that bucket…
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Processing a Hong Kong work visa application…
At the time when a Hong Kong visa agent submits an employment visa application on my behalf, is it then in fact considered problematic by Immigration that I’m already in Hong Kong on a visitor visa?
Will it make my case better to stay in my home country until the application has been submitted?
I have heard many divergent opinions on this.
For example to better be out of Hong Kong and not enter till after a minimum of 48 hours after submitting.
Please help me with your expert advice.
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The Hong Kong Visa Geeza (a.k.a Stephen Barnes) is a co-founder of the Hong Kong Visa Centre and author of the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. A law graduate of the London School of Economics, Stephen has been practicing Hong Kong immigration since 1993 and is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on business immigration matters here for the last 24 years.
