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Working in Hong Kong SAR: do you qualify?
A finance and talent hub with two employment routes and a capital-deployment scheme for high-net-worth investors.
Two ways in, and Hong Kong SAR checks them differently
An employer, a government nomination or an approved body puts its name behind the application.
- General Employment Policy (GEP)
You qualify on your own record — skills, points or capital — with no sponsor standing behind you.
- Capital Investment Entrant SchemeHK$27,000,000
- Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS)
The conditions behind the routes above
Your degree, work experience or occupation has to clear a bar set for that specific route.
Age, education, experience and language each add up to a score — you need to clear the pass mark.
An employer, a government nomination, or an approved endorsing body has to stand behind the route.
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Every official figure below is what Immimaps has verified for that route against Hong Kong SAR's official programme rules — not a marketing minimum. Service fees are what independent firms publish for the route, shown only once five or more are on file.
The investment route, requiring capital to be verified, then deployed into a defined list of permitted assets and held for a set period.
The standard employer-sponsored route, built around a specific job offer the employer has to justify hiring from abroad for.
A points-based route assessed on qualifications and experience rather than a confirmed job offer, though most applicants still end up working.
The order General Employment Policy (GEP) follows
- 2025-03-01Hong Kong's enhanced Capital Investment Entrant Scheme rules, effective 1 March 2025, shortened the required holding period for the HK$30 million net-asset qualifying test from two years to six months immediately before application (the separate HK$27 million permitted-investment amount and its own holding requirement were not changed by this measure). source
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Check my documentEvery official figure on this page is checked against Hong Kong SAR's official immigration sources. Service fees are what independent firms publish for a route — not an official figure, and never any one firm's price. Immimaps does not publish success rates, approval odds or any probability score — here or anywhere else.
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