Legal (Dependant Family) 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

Hong Kong Immigration Department form ID997 is used for applications for dependant visa for a legal spouse and/or children and also the parents aged 60 or over of Hong Kong permanent identity card holders or residence with unconditional stay. The applicant is to be outside of Hong Kong when the application on this form is submitted and one form should be completed for every applicant.

The application form itself is fairly straightforward with only four sections requiring specific commentary and these are period of stay, details of the sponsoring family member, the section on the sponsor’s family background, and the declarations for all concerned.

When completing the section in relation to your proposed date of entry, it’s advisable to state a date at least one month away but preferably two to three months hence. For proposed duration of stay, if you don’t have a fixed time in mind or indeed planned, simply state “indefinite, at your discretion.”

In the section on page 2 detailing the sponsor’s particulars, the exact details of his or her current immigration status along with the requisite Hong Kong ID reference if available will help to move the application along swiftly and efficiently.

In this segment of the form ID997, the Immigration Department are seeking to build up the family record of a Hong Kong resident by requesting information on the sponsor’s father, mother, spouse and children. In all cases, information on the nominated family members, alive or dead, no matter where they are residing, is required; and in providing this information to the Hong Kong ID, the sponsor must detail each of his or her family members’ sex, date of birth, marital status, where they currently live and the Hong Kong ID card number if any.

If the application form is being completed in relation to a child who is under 16 years of age, the parent or legal guardian must sign and declare on their behalf, ticking off the relevant boxes as in A, B and C, and elsewhere throughout the form. Principally at the bottom of the pages 1 and 2, the applicant and the parent or legal guardian of the child under 16 needs to sign and attest to the completeness, correctness and truth of the information included with the sponsor signing the sponsor statement and declaration on page four of the form where he or she undertakes their responsibility, the cost of repatriation of the sponsor dependent in the event that their residence in Hong Kong goes awry for any reason.