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Visit the Hong Kong Employment Visa Handbook, the definitive source of Hong Kong visa and immigration information for those persons seeking to work in HK.
It is a little known fact that 90% of all Hong Kong employment visa applicants who instruct immigration consultants to help out on their cases never get to meet these professionals in person these days as the service they receive is almost always delivered remotely via the internet, Skype-Video and telephone.
Further, professional immigration service providers now experience the majority of their new case instructions by way of Google searches or from personal/past client referrals. In spite of this, the Hong Kong immigration services profession continues with a pre-internet service model which means that the cost savings available to clients through the use of modern internet technologies are not being realized – and the client continues to pay more for his service than he really needs to.
At the Hong Kong Visa Centre, we know how to leverage technology very cost effectively, allowing Hong Kong employment visa applicants to self-manage their own cases, We provide visitors to the Hong Kong Employment Visa Handbook with professional-standard knowledge resources free of all cost. We then make ourselves available to provide a paid service, at very reasonable rates, offering to address any specific case-related concerns the client may have providing professional case input based on our more than 30 years combined Hong Kong employment visa and HKSAR immigration expertise.
And this very modern approach to service, enables the Hong Kong Visa Centre to empower our clients to convert a typical 12,000 Hong Kong Dollar service fee into a HKD2,000 teleconference consultation – a saving of more than 80%!
Under our wholly unique service model our clients get great service, enjoy significant savings and pay only for what they really need. All-the-while, we still retain the necessary profit margins to remain a commercially attractive business proposition.
It just makes sense.
We keep our overheads very low by running just a back-office application submission management centre which coordinates the movement of documentation and passports between our clients and Immigration Tower (no fancy offices); our case management practices are fully systemized (obviating the traditional productivity challenges found in the immigration services profession in Hong Kong). Consequently, our clients pay only for the real value in their relationship with the Hong Kong Visa Centre, namely, our professional expertise, knowledge and experience.
Stephen Barnes
Author, Hong Kong Visa Handbook
Co-Founder, Hong Kong Visa Centre
The question very often arises as to what situation is if you are having some kind of ownership stake in a business that is seeking to employ you to work for them. Well the reality is under Hong Kong Immigration law you cannot self-sponsor. What this effectively translates itself into is that if you have any value at risk in the employing entity, you are more than likely an investor. Now, there is no hard and fast rule as to what goes to make value at risk in these circumstances. However, a good general rule of thumb is that if you end up owning between 10% and 15% of the business, it is more than likely the Immigration Department will see you as an investor in Hong Kong rather than an employee for an independent third party entity in Hong Kong and it means that a different approvability test will be applied. If you are deemed an investor, they will look to see if you are in a position to make a substantial contribution to the economy of Hong Kong and this is a very different test to the special skills, knowledge and experience of value not readily available in Hong Kong which is the approvability test which applies, as we have seen, to employees.
It’s not commonly appreciated that the Hong Kong Immigration Department actually
have a complete division which was established to handle employment visa (working visa) applications from people who find themselves with a job offer whilst visiting Hong Kong. Nowhere in the official listings of the Immigration Department can you find the submission and consideration method actually exists. Whilst the official policy is to only entertain applications from people prior to arrival in Hong Kong, common sense dictates for the Hong Kong Immigration Department not to facilitate bona fide applications for change of visa status while in Hong Kong would not only be churlish but also symptomatic of an overly legalistic and bureaucratic immigration regime which Hong Kong seeks fervently to avoid.
So, whilst you will never see at the immigration department’s website that it’s possible to adjust your status from visitor to employment while you are in Hong Kong, it is entirely possible and indeed a large body of our work has been concluded on this basis. It’s important to remember however that in accepting an application from employment visa on a change of status basis is a positive act of discretion on the part of the Immigration Department and should not be assumed as a legal right.
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He probably did the proper thing by submitting his application to the Immigration Dept right at the outset of his plans and so they were on side with him and from the get-go. As the processing time for Business Investment Visa is four to six months, by the point the Immigration Dept came around to give him the choice of his application, the business hadn't basically materialized in the way imagined and in reality was fighting to get clients and make sales. He managed to secure an Work Visa primarily based on his new job offer and wasn't in any fashion adversely impacted by the previous refusal of his investment visa application..