Can You Keep Your Hong Kong Employment Visa if You Are Being Transferred to Live & Work in China?
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Can you live in China yet remain a HK resident with a valid Hong Kong employment visa?
QUESTION
We are a married couple with children and have lived in Hong Kong for 3.5 years.
We are moving to Shanghai soon (my husband’s employer is moving us).
We currently have a Hong Kong employment visa for my husband and dependent visas for myself and kids; these expire a couple months after we move.
We still plan to visit Hong Kong reasonably frequently (every 3-4 months) after we leave.
Is there any way for us to maintain Hong Kong residence after we move, (i.e. renew and maintain our existing visas)?
In case it’s relevant, while we have been living in Hong Kong, almost all of my husband’s work has actually been conducted in mainland China (he travels there all the time) we just live here.
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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.
