Mostly, univ wont provide accomodation for familes unless the other half is also a research staff/student. If you are taking your wife, then u may have to look for accomodation outside and not in the campus....Do confirm this beforehand with the residence office...
If you are prepared for a tight budget with little or no extravagance, quality eating out and travel.
Hi Akshay,
To go down the dependence pass route, find out whether a PhD Fellow is on an employment visa or a student visa.
If it's an employment visa, *bingo* she can take up any job.
If it's a student visa, secure an employment offer anyway and then apply for an exception. Friends of mine did that about 5 years ago, so i'm not sure it is still possible. And considering his cursing it was not easy.
Either way for the dependence pass, you need to show the immigration department that you both can live from those 18.5k HKD.
As for the accommodation: at least the HKUST does not allow couples (married or not) in the student apartments and has become much stricter in policing since 2012 when the double cohort of students came in.
If you are eligible for staff quarters you are lucky. But even then, the number of availbale flats is low and you may have to live off-campus anyway.
Good luck!
PhD fellowship holder gets a student visa..Spouse cannot work unless she gets an offer and prior permission from immd..
To OP: You will be a research asst from march to july and get admitted to phd in august? Will you be doing a full time PhD or a part time PhD?
Last edited by shafiq; 27-02-2013 at 12:46 PM.
Shafiq - It must be full time if he's getting 18.5k a month.