Sometimes Large Employers Experience Hong Kong Employment Visa Refusals Too – Why Might This Be So?
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Most sizeable employers in Hong Kong have in house expertise when it comes to applying for employment visas for their foreign national staff.
And, unless they specifically outsource their immigration service needs to professional advisors, they are typically very comfortable in making and managing work visa applications when the need arises.
But sometimes, these applications can come a cropper!
You see, there are three types of employment visa cases which the Hong Kong Immigration Department see each and every working day.
These are cases which just the need the basic of administration, which otherwise require a lot of argument, or are a hybrid of the 2.
In 99% percent of all cases with a large employer sponsoring the application, the case tends to be just administrative in nature, meaning the forms must be filled in properly, the simple set of supporting documentation presented in good order and the applicant is obviously a ‘professional’ for the purposes of the General Employment Policy under Hong Kong immigration law.
The problem lies in the 1% of cases which are not just administrative but actually fall elsewhere on the argumentation-administration axis.
So, when employment visa applications sponsored by large employers get refused, it is always down to this reality: the internal human resources executive tasked with getting the visa has not understood the need to argue for an approval and has assumed that it is mostly just a matter of filling in the forms, just like always.
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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.
