How Easy (Or Hard) Is It For A Chinese Spouse Resident On The Mainland To Secure A Dependant Visa For Hong Kong?
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Can a Chinese spouse resident on the Mainland secure a dependant visa for Hong Kong?
QUESTION
My brother is married to a Chinese girl. He is Singaporean and coming to Hong Kong on a working visa.
Can he get his wife a dependant visa for Hong Kong?
They have proper legal marriage certificate from Singapore.
His wife is Chinese and staying in Shenzhen now, but she is from Shanghai originally.
ANSWER
The very short answer to this question is that, yes, your brother who is married to a Chinese girl will be able to secure a dependent visa for his wife now that he’s moving to Hong Kong to work. And naturally enough he wants to have his partner resident with him in Hong Kong during all of that time.
The thing about Chinese spouses is that if you are a permanent resident of Hong Kong, it is impossible to sponsor your spouse into Hong Kong for dependent visa; on the other hand, if you are a temporary resident such as your brother will be, he will be in a position to sponsor his Chinese spouse into Hong Kong on dependent visa, and the application process is just the same as it always is – he is going to have to be able to show that he can conceptually put food on the table and a roof over her head and that there’s going to be a need for the Immigration Department to be satisfied that the relationship is a genuine relationship.
Therefore there will be questions and calls for the kind of information that I speak to the reality that this is not a marriage of convenience, this is in fact a bona fide, genuine marriage. The only other wrinkle to an application for a Chinese spouse resident on the mainland is the process that is followed to secure the dependent visa.
On the one hand it normally is just a typical normal type of employment dependent vis application. But on the other she is going to as a Chinese national have to secure an exit entry permit from the Public Security Bureau with endorsement for Hong Kong. Once the dependenties was issued in Hong Kong, then the production of the dependent visa along with the entry-exit permit to the Public Security Bureau in the place where she keeps her family registration will lead to the requisite to exit endorsement for Hong Kong. And whilst that is a process that is handled on the Chinese side, the Immigration Department in Hong Kong expect that the dependent visa holder who is a Mainland resident entering Hong Kong on that basis.
So there’some work to be done in Hong Kong side and there some work to be done in China side, but all things considered, it would seem reasonable to assume that your brother will be able to sponsor his wife forendent to come to Hong Kong.
Ok, I hope this helps.
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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.
