Student Visa Working Outside HK

[uber]

hi I have a student visa. As far as i know i can not work in hong kong. But can i do daily business travels outside hong kong? Like taiwan?
thanks for the help.

[Football16]

Taiwan is a bit far and expensive to do daily business travels to and from. The air flight cost doing it daily would make working a money losing proposition very quickly.

The issue for HKSAR is what you do here and what that particular visa allows. What you do work-wise in another country is of no concern to them.

The two issues I see are:

1. You need to check the work rules in Taiwan if that is where you are going every day, not HKSAR's rules.

2. Immigration in HKSAR might wonder why a student visa holder was coming and going everyday and question your student status as clearly you wouldn't be in classes or the lab here.

[MovingIn07]

what is the question? why would a hk visa have any bearing on going to taiwan?

[er2]

It is not your visa but your school regulations that you need to check. Mine don't allow me to leave hongkong without applying for leave but if you're not doing a research degree then yours might be less strict. That said, i did some work for my former employer during my first year here, stuff i could do at home. No way for school to find out, so nobody cares.
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[uber]

oh. i'm sorry. expressed myself wrong. I didn't mean daily but I meant if I go on a-day-long basis. But in fact I wanted to generally refer to working in different countries than Hong Kong. I was asking because the visa regulations didn't really point out if I'm not supposed to work only in Hong Kong or not to work at all during my permit of stay.

In my case I would have to do day-long jobs outside HK (to taiwan for example) and would state to the airport authorities that my travel would be for business purposes.And it would happen once a month or less.

thank you for your help

[MovingIn07]

If you have an ID card then you go through the machines at the airport and do not have to declare to anyone in HK what purpose your travel is for. As others have indicated, it's not the HK authorities that care what you do outside HK! (Unless you are paid by a HK entity to make such trips; paid into a HK bank account etc etc)

[er2]

I was told you cannot use the machines if you are on a student visa... Which sucks since the stamp i get is so big that i'm running out of pages in my passport. Anyone happens to know a workaround for this?
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[uber]

I don't have the idcard. I have only the visa. but i'm glad to hear that apparently hk won't mind. In taiwan i don't need any permission as long as I stay less than 30 days.

thanks to all for the help!

[carang]

ummmm... uber, if you are here for more than a month(?) you MUST have a HKID CARD! i'd get my bottom down to immigration tomorrow if i was you.

[vmlinuz]

ummmm... uber, if you are here for more than a month(?) you MUST have a HKID CARD! i'd get my bottom down to immigration tomorrow if i was you.

I think you'll find you need to get an ID card within a year of being issued a visa which is good for more than 6 months. You can be here as a vistor for as long as immigration let you in without an ID card...