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Immigration Services in Hong Kong

 

Information on Hong Kong Identity Cards:

All Hong Kong residents aged 11 or over are required to register for an identity card, except those who are exempted. You must keep your card in proper condition, and carry it with you at all times after you have attained the age of 15 years. Hong Kong residents aged 18 or over must register for an adult identity card. If you are a new arrival aged 18 or over and have been permitted to stay in Hong Kong for more than 180 days, you must register for an identity card within 30 days of arrival.

No fee is payable when you register for an identity card for the first time. However, if your card is lost, defaced or damaged then you have to pay HK$ 335 to make a new card. For the replacement of Identity card for the alteration of particulars the fee is HK$ 420.

If your identity card is lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced, you should report to the Immigration Department and apply for a replacement within 14 days.  If you replace your Identity card, you must return your existing Identity card to the Immigration Department for cancellation because under the Registration of Persons Regulations, any person who possesses more than one identity card without reasonable excuse commits an offence and is liable to a fine of HK$50,000 and imprisonment for 2 years.

To protect your Identity card from being malfunctioned; you must never bend your card, or place near a magnet or scratch or remove the chip from your card.

You can apply to register for an identity card at the following address:

8/F, Immigration Tower
7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai
(MTR Wan Chai Station – Exit A5)

Opening Hours:
8:45 am – 4:30 pm (Monday to Friday)
9 – 11:30 am (Saturday)
Closed on Sunday and public holidays

Telephone: 2824 6111

 

Information on Hong Kong Visas:

In general, unless a person has the right of abode or right to land in Hong Kong, he/she requires an entry visa/permit to work, study, establish or join in any business.

An application for an entry visa to enter Hong Kong for a visit (leisure, social or business) may be favorably considered if:

the applicant’s bona fides are not in doubt;

  1. the applicant has adequate funds to cover the duration of his/her stay without working; and
  2. Where the application is for a transit visa/permit, he/she holds an onward ticket to the place of his/her destination.

For a sponsor who is a Hong Kong permanent resident or a resident who is not subject to a limit of stay (i.e. a resident with the right to land or on unconditional stay), the following dependants may apply to join him/her for residence in the HKSAR:

  1. his/her spouse;
  2. his/her unmarried dependent child under the age of 18; and
  3. his/her parent aged 60 or above.

A dependant may apply for extension of stay for residence in the HKSAR within 4 weeks before his/her limit of stay expires. The fee for ordinary visa is HK$ 160 and for transit visa is HK$ 84.

If you wish to get more information, please contact the Immigration Department of the HKSAR on telephone (852) 2824 6111, by fax (852) 2877 7711; or through the Internet http://www.immd.gov.hk/ .