[KKKK]

Hi sorry to post another visa question - that has probably been poted many times before - but I can't find it.

My husband has applied for a work visa through his company and a dependency visa for me. Should be no problems there. The problem is we don't think they will be processed in time for the time we were hoping to leave England and come to Hong Kong.

Can we come to Hong kong on tourist visa's while our work/dependency visa's are being processed???

If we did this can my husband work in his hong kong office??? - He does this now on a regular basis for short term work - I guess the company would have to pay him an English salary and change to Hong Kong salary when the visa's were processed??? It's an English company.

Is there any leaving and re-entering the country stuff we need to know about in relation to this???

Thank you all for any help on this and look forward to meeting you all in a few weeks.

K

[nivantj]

>>> Can we come to Hong kong on tourist visa's while our work/dependency visa's are being processed???

Yes you can

>> If we did this can my husband work in his hong kong office???

No thats illegal

>> He does this now on a regular basis for short term work

Is he working illegally?

>> I guess the company would have to pay him an English salary and change to Hong Kong salary when the visa's were processed???

It depends on mutual agreement between your husband and the company.

[PDLM]

What nivantj says is legally correct, but of course many people on internal company transfers do effectively start work in HK and in the region before their Employment Visas are approved. As you say, until he has a HK Employment Visa he shouldn't get paid in HK, but you're very unlikely to have a problem if he continues to get paid from the UK until that time.