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16-04-2008, 10:36 AM
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| | | If you want our advice, you should be honest with us so we can help you. You called it a "trip", but we all know you did a visa run. How long have you been in HK? From your posting history you have been here a long time, at least from last May 2007 (if not farther). So consider yourself lucky to have lasted this long. It is quite clear that you have been working (freelance/consultant) all this time. HK immigration are not stupid, they know how many days you have been in HK.
Do not try to do another visa run to Shenzhen, that is really asking for trouble. Also, do not go to Wan Chai tower without an air ticket!!! This is your only chance, to say something like "look my flight is on May 1, please let me stay until then". If you tell them that you have an interview in 2 weeks, they will tell you "then leave now and come back then". | |
16-04-2008, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by jimbo  Yes to the first part if you already have interviews arranged/lined up before entering hk on a tourist visa thats fine, But I still wouldn't tell immigration that you're here for interviews. | They will not let me get in if I don t tell them... I must have a good reaon to come back in HK. Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbo But to come into HK to specifically job hunt with no contacts/interviews lined up is a big no no. Heavily frowned upon and yes you will be marked on your passport that you're doing this thus no chance of an extension ever, This happened to me 2 years ago. | How did you solve the problem ? | |
16-04-2008, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by chimo If you want our advice, you should be honest with us so we can help you. You called it a "trip", but we all know you did a visa run. How long have you been in HK? From your posting history you have been here a long time, at least from last May 2007 (if not farther). So consider yourself lucky to have lasted this long. It is quite clear that you have been working (freelance/consultant) all this time. HK immigration are not stupid, they know how many days you have been in HK.
Do not try to do another visa run to Shenzhen, that is really asking for trouble. Also, do not go to Wan Chai tower without an air ticket!!! This is your only chance, to say something like "look my flight is on May 1, please let me stay until then". If you tell them that you have an interview in 2 weeks, they will tell you "then leave now and come back then". |
I worked here april 2006 to 2007. I step up my soleproprietorship a year ago. apply for a investment visa in october, get a negativ answer on end of march.
Start to look for a job since. Went to BGK last week end... spent too many days in HK on my tourist visa apparently.
sure they know everything...
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16-04-2008, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by guiguitche They will not let me get in if I don t tell them... I must have a good reaon to come back in HK.
How did you solve the problem ? | You have no good valid reason to come back to HK, As per chimo's comments you've been lucky so far but now you have to go home.
I had to go back home in the end and left it at that till I applied for residency about a year later which was granted, I didn't have the necessary paperwork back then but I did last year thus am fine now. | |
16-04-2008, 10:58 AM
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| | | Well you lasted 2 years on visa runs, not many people can last that long. I would just go back to your home country (you seem French?). Tickets to CDG aren't that expensive. Then, if you are serious about setting up your company, consider getting a professional to help you with it. And in the meantime, look for HK jobs back home. Good luck!
I lasted almost 3 years on visa runs, but I was lucky enough to have both a Canadian and UK passport, so I just kept on switching passports each time I entered. After my company was up for 3 years and hired some locals, I was successful in hiring myself as an employee. | |
16-04-2008, 11:17 AM
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| | I had a proper visa from october 2006 to october 2007. OK it was a trainee visa.
I played with my tourist visa since last october...
me french ?? nooooooooo  you can read it ??
this story stinks a bit... who needs a flat ?? | |
16-04-2008, 11:35 AM
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| | | I was on a phone with a recruiting company... you are allowed to be here and looking for a job... | |
16-04-2008, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by guiguitche I was on a phone with a recruiting company... you are allowed to be here and looking for a job... | They would say that but of course immigration frown upon it as its 'illegal' thats what senior immigration officials told me last time. | |
16-04-2008, 11:40 AM
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| | (Showing my age a little) In the words of Ms Rice-Davies "we he would, wouldn't he?"
And there is something of a distinction between "being here for some other purpose and looking for a job", and "entering HK for the primary (or sole) purpose of finding a job".
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16-04-2008, 12:11 PM
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