www.hongkongvisahandbook.com - the Complete D-I-Y, 100% Free guide to getting a Hong Kong defacto spouse visa as found in the Hong Kong Visa Handbook. On the Hong Kong Visa Handbook website you will discover every possible resource required to effectively finish a Hong Kong visa application at the Hong Kong Immigration Department. The Immigration Department will expect that the sponsoring defacto spouse resident in Hong Kong will have sufficient means to be able to support financially the prolonged visitor visa holding partner. Somewhat ironically, the Immigration Department expects that the parties will undertake in writing that their relationship will eventually lead to a legal marriage and prolonged visitor visas in these circumstances are usually granted for a period of no more than 6 months; and when you go through the process of extending your prolonged visitor visa, you will simply have to submit another undertaking to the effect that your relationship to the best of your belief will eventually lead to legal marriage. This said, they won’t be asking you to get married in the next 6 months; and as noted, because we are only getting a prolonged visitor visa, the status that comes with the visitor visa allows residence but does not allow you to join in a business or take up employment. So, it’s very much a ‘slippers and pipe’ type immigration status. The next step is for you to review the visa information document. This details each of the essential elements of the successfully argued Hong Kong visa case and contains in-context links to all of the resources needed to prepare your application. These include application templates, the online application forms, screen casts somehow to complete the forms, a checklist of all the documents you need to prepare as part of the submission bundle, a crib sheet on how to submit your application and audio discussions of some of the finer points in official policy and procedures, and specific case examples from the past which will serve to help you by way of illustration. Let’s go through visa information document now.

1. Pre‐Submission
Checklist
Defacto Spouse
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Application, Family Background and Sponsorship forms fully completed and executed by
both the applicant and sponsor.
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A declaration letter signed by the applicant declaring that he/she will not take up employ‐
ment, join in a business or study whilst holding prolonged visitor visa status.
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A letter from both partners declaring that the relationship will eventually lead to a legal mar‐
riage.
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A confirmation letter to be signed by the sponsor confirming that he/she will be responsible
for meeting the applicant’s financial needs in Hong Kong.
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A letter detailing the sponsor’s relationship with the applicant and to be signed by both par‐
ties.
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A letter from the sponsor’s employer/company in Hong Kong and/or a copy of the Employ‐
ment Contract showing the sponsor’s financial package.
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Copy of current residential tenancy agreement in Hong Kong where the couple will live (or
proof of ownership).
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Copy of the both the sponsor’s and applicants’ bank statements for the past three months
and/or other supporting documents as proof of financial stability of both partners.
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Original photos evidencing the sponsor and the applicant’s long‐term relationship (ideally
with dates printed on the photos and split over the period of the long‐term relationship).
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Original passports of both the sponsor and the applicant.
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Copy of the sponsor’s Hong Kong Identity Card.
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Letters or other supporting communications written by persons/friends (in Hong Kong &
overseas) proving that the long‐term relationship is/was known widely in Hong Kong & over‐
seas; and
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Documents indicating the sponsor and the applicant were co‐habiting overseas prior to their
arrival in Hong Kong , (eg phone bills, bank statements/other utility bills, letters addressed to
the same address to both of the sponsor and the applicant separately.)
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2. Pre‐Submission
Checklist
Defacto Spouse
Notes
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