Immigration Department

28 Apr 2013

Banging African drums and chanting words such as "justice", hundreds of asylum seekers and torture claimants marched from Central to Immigration Tower in Wan Chai yesterday to protest over what...

12:15PM

Immigration chief gives Sri Lankan refugee temporary right to work in HK

16 Apr 2013

A torture claimant received a temporary work permit from the Immigration Department just a day before he is to lodge a legal challenge against the department in the city's top court today.

4:38AM

Letters to the Editor, March 9, 2013

9 Mar 2013

My father is a dementia patient who cannot recognise people or his surroundings. As we never let him hold any cash or an Octopus card, we have discovered a disturbing fact; Hong Kong's public...

2:31AM

Refugees can be sent to persecution under Hong Kong law

8 Mar 2013

The principle of not sending someone to a place where they may be persecuted has never been part of Hong Kong law, the government said yesterday.

3:42AM

Letters to the Editor, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

I was interested to read Dr Robert Hanson's letter ("'Green' light bulbs really a health hazard", February 22), replying to my letter ("Offer rewards for light-bulb recycling", February 17)....

3:32AM

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Big rise in rejection of torture claimants

21 Feb 2013

There has been a tenfold increase in the number of people deported after failing to seek sanctuary from oppression in their home countries over the past three years, official figures reveal.

5:12AM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

Updated 5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

4:18AM

Immigration hit list forgets local parallel-goods traders

The immigration chief has revealed for the first time that the department's list of suspected parallel-goods traders does not feature any Hong Kong people, despite them accounting for the bulk of...

4:25AM

Fairer refugee processing would benefit Hong Kong

Whether it is stories of refugee children unable to attend school, families unable to pay rent, complaints about the slow processing of asylum-seeker status or the seemingly inadequate government...

5:21AM

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Number of quality migrant applicants rises 10pc in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has seen an increase of nearly 10 per cent in the number of well-qualified people who want to live here, says the Immigration Department. Most of those approved were from the mainland....

8:39AM

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TRAVEL

Visitors flood into Hong Kong as locals hope to flee chill

Hong Kong has been infected with the travel bug this holiday season, with immigration staff expecting to handle 8.65 million journeys - most via the land crossings.

1:55PM

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RIGHT OF ABODE

Increase in number of domestic helpers applying for right of abode

More than 1,000 foreign domestic helpers have applied for permanent identity cards since a court ruled in September last year that a law preventing them from applying for right of abode was...

4:55AM

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SECURITY

Face-recognition system for visitors to be used at border control

The Immigration Department plans to introduce a face-recognition system in addition to fingerprint-checking currently used for incoming travellers using e-channels, according to a document...

7:40AM