Is it possible for a UK guy to stay in HK wifout a uni degree?

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    No matter where your friend is from, he deserves a chance to make it anywhere he wishes. We all want that freedom in life.

    maybe your friend can find a company that is working in the same fields he has worked in. He may be able to convince them that his experience can help them to make even more profitable.

    Regarding not having a uni degree, the film director woody allen flunked out of college in his freshman year. He never got a degree, but he has contributed more than the cynical bigots who have posted on this thread.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sarpesius:

    maybe your friend can find a company that is working in the same fields he has worked in. He may be able to convince them that his experience can help them to make even more profitable.
    You don't just have to convince a company to hire you - you have to convince immigration to grant a work visa. Highly unlikely for admin type roles which can be filled locally with relative ease. Also company profitability is not a criteria for granting a work visa in HK.

    If you currently work for an MNC it might be easier to convince immigration that your admin skills are indispensible to the company, if you are seeking an internal transfer to HK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hello_there:
    You don't just have to convince a company to hire you - you have to convince immigration to grant a work visa. Highly unlikely for admin type roles which can be filled locally with relative ease. Also company profitability is not a criteria for granting a work visa in HK.

    If you currently work for an MNC it might be easier to convince immigration that your admin skills are indispensible to the company, if you are seeking an internal transfer to HK.
    Are you implying that, even with an offer of employment from a company, immigration would not give him or her a visa?

    It is true, as you so helpfully point out, that one doesn't "just" have to gain approval of the company, but I am suggesting this can be a first step.

    If the applicant can prove to the company that he can enhance profitability, they would be more willing to give him or her an offer of employment. Then, with the offer, he would be in a better position to seek a visa.

    And do you mean that none of the expats here have admin positions?

    (Are we really talking here about the mechanics of obtaining a work visa, or are we just defending some snide, classist racism?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by sarpesius:
    Are you implying that, even with an offer of employment from a company, immigration would not give him or her a visa?

    You don't "just" have to gain the approval of the company, but I am suggest this can be a first steou p.

    If the applicant can prove to the company that he can enhance profitability, then they would be more willing to give him or her an offer of employment. Then, with the offer, he would be in a better position to seek a visa.

    And do you mean that none of the expats here have admin positions?

    (Are we really talking here about the mechanics osf obtaining a work visa, or are we really just defending some snide, classist racism?)
    Immigration can certainly reject an application for a visa even if the person has a job offer. It depends what you mean by admin i.e. what level and what other skills are required to do that job. I have no idea what you are referring to on the racism issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sarpesius:
    And do you mean that none of the expats here have admin positions?
    Maybe expats on dependent visas. Maybe a few have been granted employment visas for senior administrative roles (office managers, etc.). But a sponsoring employer has to show immigration that a position cannot be filled locally in order for the employment visa to be granted. Its a HK immigration criteria that must be met, and for many admin type roles it is difficult. For example, my firm has tried to bring an assistant office manager from the US and so far two applicants have been denied visas precisely because immigration is not convinced the position cannot be filled locally.