Employment - Working Visa - Mainland Talents & Professionals 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

Hong Kong Immigration Department form ID990A is used by an applicant to initiate an application for an employment visa, for admission under the immigration arrangements from non-local graduates and for the admission of mainland talents and professionals. Each of these visa types fall into the category of employment as a professional under the general employment policy and the form is used where the applicant is physically outside of Hong Kong on the date that application is submitted to Hong Kong Immigration Department.

The form itself is relatively straightforward to complete with only the sections discussing proposed period of stay, accompanying family members if any, qualifications, employment record and declarations, requiring an examination detail. The rest of the form is all very self explanatory.

Part two of the form which covers the proposed stay in Hong Kong for employment, the proposed date of entry is best demarcated as being at least one month hence but ideally three to four months in order to give the Hong Kong Immigration Department the time they need to finalize the visa consideration processes; and for the proposed duration of stay, if you got no fixed time to the future, you can simply state “indefinite, at your discretion.”

If some or all of your family members are accompanying you during your stay for employments in Hong Kong, you complete this section of the form to have them joined as a party to your application. They will be granted dependent visas assuming that they qualify as your legal dependents and the period stay they receive will mirror yours as the principal applicant exactly.

There are four discrete sections on the form ID990A which speaks to qualifications and prior employment record. It’s vital that the information you provide in this sections of the form does tell perfectly into the information detailed on the CV which we recommend you include as standard in your application, so check the details carefully.

Section five and six are very straightforward. However, section four is designed to identify those applicants who qualify for liberalized visa consideration treatment under the immigration arrangements for non-local graduates. So, if you have not previously or recently graduated from a Hong Kong territory educational institute, please strike this section through marking it as “not applicable.”

On the form, there are three areas to declare the truthfulness, correctness and completeness of the information you submitted in pursuit of your application and these are at the bottom of each page of the form in respect to the dependents joining in the application and at the end by the principal applicant him or herself.