Hong Kong Visa & Immigration Topics

I Have an Employment Visa and I Want to Bring My Girlfriend to Hong Kong – Options Please?

Posted in Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered /

” I Want to Bring My Girlfriend to Hong Kong”. This is a common challenge for people in serious, yet relatively new  relationships. The Hong Kong visa options are few and far between. You absolutely have to make sure that you stay on the right side of the law on this one. It’s all too […]

Hong Kong Dependant Visa: How Can You Prove Your Relationship is Genuine If You Marry in Hong Kong But Have Been Together Only About a Year?

Posted in Family Visas, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered /

How do you go about demonstrating to the Hong Kong Immigration Department that your relationship is a genuine one as you apply for a Hong Kong dependant visa? QUESTION I have a question about the interplay between marriage and subsequently obtaining a Hong Kong dependant visa. Our situation is as follows: I am professional with […]

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Is It Possible to Get an Extension to My Hong Kong Visitor Visa to Stay With My Girlfriend Here?

Posted in The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas, Your Question Answered /

Sometimes people have solid, genuine reasons for spending extended periods of time in Hong Kong as a visitor as in the case of this question from a Kiwi who wants to spent time with his girlfriend here. But the patience of the Hong Kong Immigration Department can extend only so far and eventually time runs […]

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Is It Possible to Get an Extension to My Hong Kong Visitor Visa to Stay With My Girlfriend Here?

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Sometimes people have solid, genuine reasons for spending extended periods of time in Hong Kong with a Hong Kong visitor visa as in the case of this question from a Kiwi who wants to spent time with his girlfriend here. But the patience of the Hong Kong Immigration Department can extend only so far and […]

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Stephen Barnes What’s Up Hong Kong Interview: Immigration, Visas, the Universe, Life & Everything

Posted in Employment Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas /

Yours Truly was interviewed by What’s Up Hong Kong in my favourite corner of Pacific Coffee (Fenwick Street / Lockhart Road in Wanchai)  last week and today..

Hong Kong Visas – The Long Stay Visitor’s Awkward Predicament

Posted in 60 Second Snapshot, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas /

3 or 4 times a week I receive a call from people who have exactly the same problem. It happens so often now, that I..

The Visa Geeza on RTHK Radio Three – July 2012

Posted in Musing, Refusals & Appeals, The Hong Kong Visa Geeza, Visitor Visas /

I really enjoyed my entanglement with Phil @ Morning Brew today when he really went to town on the question of people who overstay their..

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