Hong Kong Immigration Department: Whose Goal Keeper?

For local citizens as well as outsiders, dealing with Immigration Department of Hong Kong is almost inevitable.

A Falun Gong practitioner was tied up and carried onto an airplane on July 1, 2007. Nearly 800 Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan and other areas were repatriated from Hong Kong by force on that day. The Epoch Times

For local citizens as well as for outsiders, dealing with the Immigration Department of Hong Kong is almost an inevitable. Birth and death registrations, entering and exiting Hong Kong, and marriage registrations are just a few of the department’s services.

The department has been known for high efficiency. For example, it takes only four weeks to approve a foreign art group’s application to perform in Hong Kong—in almost all cases, that is.

Actually, Shen Yun Performing Arts might be the only group that waited for more than 17 weeks for its staff’s visa approvals, and it was informed only three days before the company’s scheduled flight to Hong Kong that the entry visas of six core staff members were denied.