My company submitted my employment visa application to Immigration a little over a week ago, and today we just got back our reference number to check status online. I'm aware of the normal timelines to process visas, but at the same time my company is keen for me to get over and set-up and have indicated they could continue paying my salary in the US while we're waiting for the employment visa to finish processing. So the idea is that we'd probably come over 2nd week of April as long as their had been no problems highlighted with our application. Once finished and approved we'd hop a ferry to Macau and come back. If I was by myself I wouldn't hesitate to do this, as it was pretty much exactly the way I did this when I first arrived in HK for work 7 years ago. However, I'm wondering if showing up with my wife, 2 kids, and a cat on a one-way flight when the working visa hasn't finished processing would raise suspicions/cause problems, or if it is ok to just say we have a working visa being processed and are coming over to find a flat and get set up while we're waiting for that to finish processing. Does anyone have any experience doing the same/similar?