[gweilo]

Originally Posted by araucaria

I sympathise with your predicament, but don’t think you can blame immigration for this. You are asking them to grant a girl a visa on the grounds that she’s pregnant? Imagine the ramifications.

Surely it would be better to arrange for her to be in UK for the birth and leave Hong Kong out of the equation.

Hi, the only reason that i cannot apply for a dependant visa is that my divorce is not finalised, the UK and USA have "Fiance" visas, hong kong does not. why would i want to have the baby born in the UK? my business is here, hong kong has been my home for 15 years, hong kong in my experience is biased against filipina women, but that is due to the past and current actions of filipina females.
God forbid that i was gay and had a filipino boyfriend, there would be no way whatsoever of obtaining a visa.
my wife left me and now i am paying for it, through bureaucracy i am alone again.
Gwailo

[PDLM]

I'm sorry to be cynical, but surely the sensible course would have been not to get your girlfriend pregnant until your divorce was absolute? Filipinas are notoriously fecund - you need to be extremely cautious if getting them pregnant would be a Bad Thing.

You really have no-one to blame but yourself in this situation. Having being resident here for 15 years you should know what the law of the land is - Immigration has very limited discretion in these matters.

[Star Gazer]

there are many mainland women MARRIED to HK men and yet many are unable to come to to HK to give birth, and many because of their married status, are unable to get a dependent's visa and only a 90 day visitors visa or something. and yet you want immigration to otherwise give special consideration to your g/f when they can't even grant these privileges to the other women waiting to join their husbands ???

I do not want to sound negative and yes it is a sad situation but perhaps she would be in a better position to be in hk if she was married to you.

[kombuchakid]

Luckily your girlfriend is the correct nationality for you to get her a domestic helper visa.

[kombuchakid]

Forgot to add that there is no law against marrying your DH once your divorce is final

[ScotchDrinker]

So... you have been together proper for less than 6 months, you managed to "fall in love" and "decided to" start a family, all in that time, all the while still being technically a married man...

[campas12]

Originally Posted by ScotchDrinker

So... you have been together proper for less than 6 months, you managed to "fall in love" and "decided to" start a family, all in that time, all the while still being technically a married man...

stay classy geoexpaters.

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by ScotchDrinker

So... you have been together proper for less than 6 months, you managed to "fall in love" and "decided to" start a family, all in that time, all the while still being technically a married man...

quite......

[gweilo]

hi all,
again thanks for the replies, at least now i can understand that there are possibly other people in my situation, we did not even consider that there would be visa problems when we started this relationship.
We cant apply for a dh visa as we are on record now as having applied for extension as we are a couple, as i have said before we have not lied to immigration before, it was just a great shock to have no extension problems for six months and then receive this bombshell, it is my fault for assuming that we could keep extending until my divorce is finalised.
Stargazer, mainland women can get a visa to come here to give birth, there is a scheme at the hospitals, it costs 40,000hkd to register, if this was available to us then we would apply straight away. we were told that no other nationality has applied before, and is for mainland pregnant women married or not.
Scotchdrinker, depending on the differences between the two persons, divorce in hong kong can take up to two years, but i understand what you are saying.
Thanks for all of the comments, will let you know how this weekend goes
Gweilo

[carang]

YOU cannot get her a FDH visa... do you have a friend that could?