Employment - Working Visa Transcript -
for those people who prefer to read, rather than
watch, the contents of the Hong kong Visa Handbook,
we have prepared the following transcript of the
A/V dialogue of our presentation Investment Visa
- Preparing Your Case
Some additional points to note in relation to the
employment visa (working visa) document list.
Please ensure that you have all of your graduation
certificates, proof of academic qualifications,
and testimonials and references on hand from your
previous employment. Naturally enough it’s these
documents that would substantiate what you claim
on your CV and serve to support the special skills,
knowledge and experience element of the approvability
test. Moreover, private companies are often reluctant
to disclose confidential financial information to
their perspective employees. So, this can be contained
in a sealed envelope to address to the Hong Kong
Director of Immigration and included as part of
the application bundle or indeed mailed in separately
once the file reference number has been allocated
post application submission.
All told, in providing supporting information in
relation to the bona fides of the sponsoring company,
the trick is to be able to educate the Immigration
Department as to the merits and activities of the
sponsoring employer as much as it is providing in
detail the special skills, knowledge and experience
of the applicant and how they are going to be applied
to the context of the job in hand. This needs to
be documented so the more information you can provide
on the business itself, the better. This could extend
to printing out a copy of the website so as to create
a permanent documentary record and the equivalence
of a company brochure. If the sponsoring entity
is relatively new, be prepared to have the Immigration
Department assess in a detailed way the merits of
the sponsor as much as the merits of the applicant
himself.
New company situations are looked at very closely
and great care needs to be taken in successfully
arguing two sides of the same coin. If the applicant
is to replace a previous employee, care must be
taken to ensure there is a like-for-like argument
promulgated. This can be tricky. If an expat is
replacing a local or replacement has a different
educational background or has a substantially different
pedigree, in these cases emphasis has to be placed
on how the role has changed since the first appointment
of the outgoing employee and how the new candidate
fits the bill perfectly. In this situation, additional
documentary evidence should be submitted to support
these contentions. The key document which must be
submitted along with each of those details on this
list is the cover letter addressed to the Director
of Immigration setting out how your case satisfies
the approvability test in its entirety.
Please refer to list of application templates included
in this part of the Hong Kong Visa Handbook for
information on how to use these.
