[gugu03]

employment visa you should check with your employer.... investment - it's not too easy to get such visa's in HKG unless you are willing to invest great amount of money in HKG> If you wish to consult professional please give me a call.. I can recommend someone.

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by shafinbutt

Any person who is on employment visa or on Employment (investment) visa, can {...} apply for his parents if they are age 60 or above.

PLEASE would you produce some evidence for this assertion. Do you actually know anybody who has done this successfully? The policy is absolutely clear - they may not apply.

Unless you have such evidence PLEASE would you stop spreading false information on this site.

[carang]

shaffinbutt....all you are succeeding in doing is raising this poor guy's hopes.
first, he is NOT eligible to apply for his mother.
second, $22,000 for a family of 4 PLUS a mother to take care of.... if you call this financially able, i think you are from another planet.

[jaykay]

Originally Posted by shafinbutt

Any person who is on employment visa or on Employment (investment) visa, can apply for his spouse to join him in Hong Kong, Can apply for his children under the age of 18 to reside with him in Hong Kong. Can apply for his parents if they are age 60 or above.

This applies only to permanent residents or those who are not subject to a limit of stay, not those who are on employment visa's. This is stated very, very clearly on the immigration website.

Those on employment visas are only entitled to the following:

39. For a sponsor who has been admitted into Hong Kong to take up employment (as professionals, investors or for training) or study (in full-time undergraduate or post-graduate programmes in local degree-awarding institutions), or who is permitted to remain in Hong Kong as a capital investment entrant or an entrant under the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, the following dependants may apply to join him/her for residence in Hong Kong:

1. his/her spouse; and
2. his/her unmarried dependent child under the age of 18.

So where you get the rest of your information from I have no idea!

[jimbo]

Agreed with PDLM and Carang

Theres no chance of your mother getting a dependants Visa, Thus don't raise any hopes, Speak to a Immigration lawyer if you must and the initial consultation is usually free but they will tell you the exact same thing.

$22k for a family of 4? Not a chance in hell of surviving on that in this town unless you're out in the NT with no rent to pay and work locally and thats even if you get a work visa for a job paying that sort of money with that number of dependants.

[hello_there]

This may sound bad, but I do know of one person who was on an Employment Visa (a former neighbor from Belgium) who was able to secure a Domestic Helper Visa for her widowed mother, whose primary "task" was childcare. Not sure how realistic an option it is. I believe they used an immigration lawyer to come up with the plan.

[hullexile]

Originally Posted by hello_there

This may sound bad, but I do know of one person who was on an Employment Visa (a former neighbor from Belgium) who was able to secure a Domestic Helper Visa for her widowed mother, whose primary "task" was childcare. Not sure how realistic an option it is. I believe they used an immigration lawyer to come up with the plan.

Getting a DH visa for a relative when on an employment visa is possible (I employ my sister-in-law as our DH) so it might be a way to solve this. Don't see why you would need a lawyer though.

[PDLM]

And I know someone who tried the DH route for his mother-in-law (from Korea) and failed. But it might be worth a shot if you're desperate.

[hullexile]

Originally Posted by PDLM

And I know someone who tried the DH route for his mother-in-law (from Korea) and failed. But it might be worth a shot if you're desperate.

How much did he have to pay immd to reject his mother-in-law's application I wonder?

[hello_there]

From what I remember my neighbor did not have an easy time getting a DH visa for her mother. I don't really know the specifics or whether an initial application was denied, but they did have to use an immigration attorney and it took a while.