http://www.hongkongvisahandbook.com - this is the brief SlideShare introduction of the Hong Kong Visitor visa as found in the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. On the Hong Kong Visa Handbook website you will discover every possible resource required to effectively finish a Hong Kong visa application at the Hong Kong Immigration Department. Because Hong Kong has a very liberal visitor visa regime, there is quite often some confusion as to what is permitted activity under the visitor visa category and really what kind of things require that you make an application for some other kind of visa, for example, employment to all business investment visa. Permitted activity is activities is where you are undertaking a genuinely business or leisure visit. You come, you interact with Hong Kong, you do your thing and then leave once more. On the other hand, people do come to Hong Kong with longer term plans and don’t actually take steps to join in a business or to take up employment, but they are doing things on the ground such as looking for apartments, looking for opportunities, looking for partners, looking to crystallize a variety of different things before determination can be made to adjust status into a residence visa; and so any pre-relocation activities which lead to business resident subsequently are permitted, and that really is a question in fact, and all the circumstances. Typically, that types of things are trade fair participation, speaking at conferences, entering into agreements, incorporating companies and effectively creating a bedrock of what’s about to come. So, this is permitted activity and a genuine business visit.

1. Pre‐Submission
Checklist
Visitor Visa
Applicant Documents
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HKID form ID1003A
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Recent photo to be attached to the form
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Photocopy of the applicant's travel document containing personal particulars, date of issue,
date of expiry and/or details of any re‐entry visa held (if applicable)
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Photocopy of proof of the applicant's financial standing, e.g. bank statements, savings accounts
passbooks, tax receipts, etc. and proof of employment (if any), e.g. company leave letter, salary
slips, etc.
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Photocopy of proof of transportation arrangement, e.g. flight itinerary
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Photocopy of proof of the proposed leisure visit to Hong Kong, e.g. receipt of joining a package
tour to Hong Kong, itinerary, etc. (for leisure visit only)
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Photocopy of proof of the proposed visit in the next destination after visiting Hong Kong, itiner‐
ary, etc. (for transit only)
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Photocopy of proof of the proposed business visit to Hong Kong, e.g. letter issued by the appli‐
cant's employing company to confirm his/her proposed business activities in Hong Kong, invita‐
tion letter issued by a local company, letter issued by a trade body to confirm the applicant's
attendance at trade fairs and exhibitions, etc. (for business visit only)
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Photocopy of proof of relationship with the local sponsor (for family visit only)
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Photocopy of proof of the proposed visit to Hong Kong (for purposes of visit other than leisure,
transit, business or family visit)
Sponsor’s Documents
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HKID form ID 1003B
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Photocopy of Business Registration Certificate (if a company sponsor)
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Photocopy of the sponsor's Hong Kong identity card (and if not a permanent resident a Photo‐
copy of the sponsor's travel document containing personal particulars, date of issue, date of
expiry, and the latest arrival stamp/extension of stay label in the HKSAR)
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2. Pre‐Submission
Checklist
Visitor Visa
Notes
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