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15-09-2003, 12:19 PM
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| | | Citizenship by Marriage?
My girlfriend has HK ID and tells me if we marry in HK then I can get a HK ID also?
I'm British, live in HK and am looking for work. | |
15-09-2003, 01:03 PM
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| | Yes, you'd have a dependant ID card -- if she classified you as being her dependant.
However, as far as I know, the new dependant regulations do not give you the automatic ability to work.
Citizenship is not an option. 
(I'll see if I can dig up some expert advice on this.. from our resident immigration experts) | |
15-09-2003, 02:40 PM
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| | You can live here as a "tourist". | |
15-09-2003, 05:10 PM
| | | | extra info
"This new policy will not, however, apply to dependant visa holders sponsored by permanent residents whose working privileges will not be affected even after July 1. "
Taken from: http://www.emigra.com.hk/dependants.html | |
15-09-2003, 05:15 PM
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| | Emigra,
So, if you're sponsored by a PR then your dependant ID allows you to work? Confusing... will they have a new code on your ID card which says so?
Thanks for droping by. | |
15-09-2003, 05:36 PM
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| | | gdawne,
I've got an important question. Do you want to get married???
Rani | |
15-09-2003, 05:37 PM
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| | | Trivial details.... | |
17-09-2003, 08:42 PM
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Yes trivial, haha | |
17-09-2003, 11:03 PM
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| | | Ok, I've been reading emigra.com.hk - way too much of it. Hopefully if I get this job I'm after, the company's attempt to sponsor a work visa will be successful - the main hurdle is my lack of a degree. And I'll also have to wait three weeks to apply, so I turn 21, and stand a better chance (21 is the watermark apparently). Guess I'll have to ask potential employers to focus on skills like foreign language journalism and western design, or somesuch. Depends if I get "this" nice job I'm currently after and having another interview for shortly.
If I don't get the visa, then the marriage thing sounds a possibility - but, besides not really wanting to be married, my girlfriend doesn't have a full time job yet either, so at the moment, I can't really be her "dependant". It's the work-visa thing I need mainly, I've got my own apartment and enough money to sustain myself here as a tourist even, but... well, in practical terms, my parents would kill me and bring shame on the family if all I did was doss about in Hong Kong and sponge off them for a year ^_^ So I want the job and real life work experience.
Maybe I could just get one of those fake online diplomas that my junkmail always offers me. That would probably put the work visa application fears aside.
Otherwise it's a year of freelance work for me or something. Which is fine in financial terms, and not utterly bad in work experience terms, but now I WANT to work in an office, with other people, not just doing freelance stuff at home by myself, even if it does allow me to wake up late and get drunk most nights. I mean, I did that at University last year and it lost its appeal very quickly.  | |
18-09-2003, 03:07 PM
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| | | I'm planning on proposing to my girlfriend soon, and start looking for a HK job (currently ex-expat looking to return ASAP), but I wouldn't get married just for the sake of a HK visa!
...I'd be worried about the motives of my girl if SHE suggested marriage as a possible solution for a HK visa...
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