Permanent ID Card Application

[kat8]

I have applied for my daughter's permanent ID card and have received a letter asking me to bring her passport, HK ID and my HK ID for verification.

I want to know if after showing them the documents, will the immigration cancel her dependent visa and give her an endorsement in her passport or will they send a letter saying that she has been verified and to register for a permanent ID?

Thanks

[Tea addict]

or will they send a letter saying that she has been verified and to register for a permanent ID?

This is what happened to me when I applied for mine. I waited about 2 weeks for a letter that said that I've been approved and that I need to go somewhere to make a permanent ID card. Make sure you go early. I went there before it opened and there was a loooooong line of FDHs lined up. So if you go early you wouldn't need to wait 30 minutes in a huge line.

[shafiq]

I have applied for my daughter's permanent ID card and have received a letter asking me to bring her passport, HK ID and my HK ID for verification.

I want to know if after showing them the documents, will the immigration cancel her dependent visa and give her an endorsement in her passport or will they send a letter saying that she has been verified and to register for a permanent ID?

Thanks

Once the permanent ID application is approved, they would present you with a letter to register for permanent ID. There won't be any endorsements in the passport, as she will be using her ID to enter and exit. The dependant visa will be no more valid as the conditions limiting her stay is lifted by immigration by providing permanent ID.

[bdw]

Sorry, what you write is not clear to me. Are you applying for your daughters permanent ID card, or are you applying for PR? If you are applying for permanent ID card, then you must already have PR (and have a piece of paper called a certificate of eligibility), and it is a mere formality, just rock up to immigration (better to make an online appointment first so you can breeze through) and have your photo taken for the card, etc. Also, your daughter must be over 11 years old (under 11 cannot get permanent ID card)

If you are applying for PR, then you rock up to 25/F of immigration tower, and if everything is in order they will give you the 'certificate of eligiblility' and then they will cancel the existing dependent visa. If your daughter is under 11 years old, you can get an endorsement in her passport that says she is a PR and can travel freely in and out of Hong Kong with this endorsement. Finished! If your daughter is over 11, then not finished yet, you need to go away and make an online appointment for permanent identity card and then come back again a few weeks later and go through the process in 1st paragraph above. Then finished!