Employment visa
Recent changes to the Hong Kong Immigration system now makes it slightly harder for an individual to obtain an employment visa, with the guidelines becoming stricter. An applicant must first have a job offer from a company in Hong Kong, ideally before the applicant has moved to HK. Although this is not always practical, the immigration service say you should not move to HK before obtaining your visa, but they know that sometimes isn’t practical, and may need to be in HK to search for a job. In general application can take between 7 and 8 weeks, but can take a lot longer.
The application guidelines that need to be adhered to are as follows:
All of the guidelines above will need to be satisfied for an applicant to pass the approvability test, which allows for a successful application.