work permit application

[calijc]

Hi,

Immigration says it usually takes 4-6 weeks to process the application.Just wondering if anyone has his/hers approved in less than 4 weeks or more than 6 weeks?

Thanks.

[PSMaverick]

Just try to follw up after 2 weeks and every week then on.Its usual for it to happen within the time period that ID tells you. Its just the time calculated on a 'worst case scenario'
Good luck!

[coolgirl]

I have my work visa already! It took 16 days from submission of docs to approval

[nation]

Another board member (esque) said hers took 7 days

[Mat]

and it took some of us 7 weeks :-) so the range 4/6 weeks is correct.

[poolangel]

Hi i am a Singaporean posted to work in HOng Kong. Its a UK company which just set up in NOv 2005. I will need to apply for a work visa from the UK branch office here. At the moment i am on visitor visa.

The problem is that i do not have a work visa in UK so they had emplooyed me to work in Hong Kong as a freelance consultant from Singapore. Hwoeve rin Singapore i do not have a company or business registration. So my case is a bit complicated. Really! I am confused too!

So if there are any kind souls out there! Could someone help me out in this. I want to apply for the work permit soon since the setting up of a branch company here is kinda of successful. So i might want to stay long term to work here. Therefore on what grounds should the company applty for me?

Please advice!

[PDLM]

Your contract of employment does not have to be in Hong Kong for you to be employed here... when I first came to HK I was on a UK contract of employment for several years, and there was no problem with Immigration. Just go through the normal Employment Visa application process - no problem being employed by a UK company to work in their branch office here.

[poolangel]

Hi PDLM thanks for your reply.

I will like to ask if you hold a work visa in UK or you are from the UK. Well i am not from the UK, and this company actually employ me from my home country as a freelance consultant to work herfe in Hkg.
Now i will like to apply for a work permit, does it mean it should be the company in Hong Kong or Company in UK applying for me to work here.

Thanks

[yyzflyalot]

Mine took just over two weeks.

[PDLM]

I am a UK Citizen, but that wasn't relevant - the point was I had an employment contract with a UK company and I was assigned under that contract to work in Hong Kong (prior to my assignment I was living and working in Belgium). But Whoever you are employed by (i.e. the HK branch office of the UK company from what you have said) should be your sponsor.