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    Only five weeks left to complete 7 years

    My husband's working visa will expired 5 weeks before he reach 7 years points, unluckily his company won't extend his working visa. ( I am holding the dependent visa). We applied Qmas visa still waiting the result. Any other suggestion that we can do to meet the 7 years requirement?
    I read a post here before that person apply PR 1 month before reach 7 years points, and before the visa expired go to the immd to extend the visa by waiting the PR results reason, is that possible? Many thanks!


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    You can apply a month before, if you have an active visa that can take you up to the 7 years mark. In your case, your husband is short 5 weeks of the 7 years.

    Cant they extend for 3 months? Can he find a new job or enrol for a course?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shafiq:
    You can apply a month before, if you have an active visa that can take you up to the 7 years mark. In your case, your husband is short 5 weeks of the 7 years.

    Cant they extend for 3 months? Can he find a new job or enrol for a course?
    He is trying to find a new job but no luck yet.
    Any course that could let him to extend his stay in hk but is not a long term course?
    Also thinking if he apply the investment visa( not the 20M investment visa), by the time when we waiting it (investment visa)process , can we extend the visa to wait for the result?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shafiq:
    You can apply a month before, if you have an active visa that can take you up to the 7 years mark. In your case, your husband is short 5 weeks of the 7 years.

    Cant they extend for 3 months? Can he find a new job or enrol for a course?
    I think you can apply one month before the 7 year mark (I did), however it wasn't active until I hit the 7 year mark.

    I guess one option is to explain to immigration, they may be able to grant a discretionary visitor visa or some other visa to get you over the 7 year mark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    I guess one option is to explain to immigration, they may be able to grant a discretionary visitor visa or some other visa to get you over the 7 year mark.
    Once on a visitor visa, you wouldn't be considered ordinarily resident.

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    Quote Originally Posted by big_panda:
    Once on a visitor visa, you wouldn't be considered ordinarily resident.
    Doesn't have to be visitor. I would ask immigration and see what they say first.
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    I don't get why the Work visa expires 5 weeks before the 7 years.

    You use to get 1/2/2/2 year visa (which I have from 2012) and now it's 1/3/3 I believe. So either one of these should be valid up to the full 7 years period shouldn't it?

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    Time is obviously tight but if you are working as well then visa swaps are not uncommon - you ask your employer to sponsor you, get a GEP visa, hubby moves to dependant. Is that an option? Also, key question - how long is his visa still valid?

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    Yea I had considered that, I guess because I haven't changed jobs myself I assumed the visa date wouldn't change just the sponsor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trebor:
    I don't get why the Work visa expires 5 weeks before the 7 years.

    You use to get 1/2/2/2 year visa (which I have from 2012) and now it's 1/3/3 I believe. So either one of these should be valid up to the full 7 years period shouldn't it?
    Passport validity also affects the validity period of the visa. So there could be that as well.
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