Dear Forum, I am so worried for the moment and I hope, I can get some positive comments, although I am much older than the most forum members.
I try to make it short: 3 years ago I decided to change my life, to leave Germany and I followed my daughter (already 6 years in china now) to Shanghai after the birth of my first grandchild, as I firstly wanted to be close to the family and secondly learn more about Asia. I have spent nearly 3 wonderful years in a new culture and with my family. Furthermore I got a good job in Shanghai and all paperworks with visa and working permit have not been a problem there.
In summer my son in law got a better position in his company in HK and we decided to move alltogether, as I don't want to miss my family anymore and my family me. Meanwhile a second grandchild was born. My idea was to continue like in Shanghai, but I have been not well prepared about the strong rules in HK. Here I couldnt get a job, but ok, for me it is more worth to be with the kids and my family has no problem to finance me. Meanwhile I have been to several Consulting companies, at the Immigration tower and the result is, that I am too young to stay here with my family. The rule is, that I need to be 60 years at least to apply for a dependent visa ( I am 52). The stuff at the Immigration adviced me to write a letter to the director with my special reasons. It is done and today I had an interwiev there, which gave me more depression than hope. they handled me without any human feelings and the first word was "no" without reading the application and 30 other documents before, I was requested to bring with me. Instead they told me to bring more and more documents and they told me, that I shouldn't have hope. I can not believe, that it is impossible to stay here. I need to find a way. My grandchildren are the sense of my life now and they need me like I need them. We are practising an unusal expat family life, but it is working so well and I can not accept and understand, that a family will be destroyed about crazy rules. May be somebody could give me a useful advice...I would be so happy.
Thank you very much in advance.
Conni