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Unemployed Employment Visa Holders Can No Longer Change To Top Talent Pass Visa Status

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Unemployed Holders of Employment Visas Are No Longer Eligible to Change to Top Talent Pass Visa Focus Appears To Be On Attracting New Talent & Not Enabling ‘Out of Luck’ Existing Talent  – Click To Download The Guidebook –  In late 2024, the Hong Kong Immigration Department implemented significant yet understated modifications to its Top […]

Sierra Leone Permanent Residency And Citizenship | A Whole New String To My Bow | GO-FOR-GOLD

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Sierra Leone Permanent Residency And Citizenship GO-FOR-GOLD A New Way to Quickly & Very Cost-Effectively Secure Sierra Leone Permanent Residency And Citizenship INTERVIEW How to Design a Residency by Investment Program from Scratch: The Case of Sierra Leone Jason Black (JB) the press representative of Hong Kong Visa Centre, interviews Stephen Barnes, a leading figure […]

Shenzhen Residents Get Unlimited 7 Day Visits To Hong Kong

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Shenzhen Residents Now Eligible for Unlimited 7-Day Visits to Hong Kong The Visa Geeza Discusses On RTHK Radio 3 Today   Shenzhen Residents Get Unlimited 7-Day Visits to Hong Kong Starting December 2024 From 1 December 2024, Shenzhen residents will enjoy greater travel flexibility to Hong Kong with the reinstatement of the multiple-entry Individual Visit […]

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Will Time Spent In Prison In Hong Kong Break Continuity Of Ordinary Residence For The Purposes Of A Right Of Abode Application After 7 Years?

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This article deals with the question of whether time spent in prison in Hong Kong will break the continuity of ordinary residence for the purposes of a Right of Abode application after 7 years. First Published on April 10, 2016 QUESTION I am interested to know if there is anything I could do to strengthen […]

Hong Kong Expats Get Hong Kong Passports – Why?

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Hong Kong Expats Get Hong Kong Passports Why Some Hong Kong Expats Relinquish Their Citizenship-of-Origin and Become Chinese Citizens Hong Kong Expats Get Hong Kong Passports – Why? In recent years, a growing number of expats in Hong Kong have made the decision to relinquish their citizenship-of-origin and become Chinese citizens. This trend is fueled […]

Is It Ever Possible To Swap A Foreign Domestic Helper Visa Into A Regular Employment Visa In Hong Kong?

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Can you swap a Foreign Domestic Helper visa into a Regular employment visa? This is a reasonable question that has an obvious answer although not for the reasons you might typically expect. In 20 years of practising Hong Kong visa and immigration consultancy, the only successful change of status application from FDH to residence visa […]

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HIV Health Checks & Your Hong Kong Visa Application

Posted in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Feature Article, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Special Programmes, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered /

More than 20 years in the business of Hong Kong immigration and this is the first time I can remember this question ever being raised. So, now you know how to go about HIV Health Checks Hong Kong Visa Application! QUESTION Hi Stephen, I do not see this issue addressed on your web site (which, […]

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How Can I Regain The Right Of Abode In Hong Kong If I Have Been Downgraded To The Right To Land?

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Getting from the Right to Land to the Right of Abode is the same as coming from a temporary visa to a permanent identity card. It’s all about the magic seven years in Hong Kong…  QUESTION I am a UK Citizen with the Right to Land. I understand that with Right to Land, I have no […]

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