Work Permits and Everlasting Residence Choices for Hong Kong Nationals

Work Permits

The general public coverage permits for the issuance of open work permits to eligible residents of Hong Kong, whether or not they’re in Canada or overseas, for a interval of as much as three years. Eligible relations can also be issued an open work allow.

To be eligible, the international nationwide should:

• maintain a legitimate passport issued by the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area or the UK to a British Nationwide Abroad;
• have graduated not more than 10 years earlier than theyapply for this open work allow, with one of many following:
  • a level (for instance, affiliate, bachelor’s, grasp’s or doctoral) from a delegated post-secondary studying establishment in Canada or an establishment overseas;
  • a diploma for a minimal 2-year program from a delegated post-secondary studying establishment in Canada or an establishment overseas; or
  • a graduate or post-graduate credential from a program of not less than 1 12 months that required the completion of a post-secondary diploma or diploma, as a prerequisite for acceptance into this system, and which was acquired not more than 5 years earlier than they began this system.

Work permits might be legitimate for as much as three years.

Everlasting Residence

There are two everlasting resident streams.

The primary is the In-Canada Graduates Stream. To be eligible she should:

• maintain a legitimate passport issued by one of many following:
  • Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area of the Folks’s Republic of China
  • United Kingdom to a British Nationwide (Abroad) as an individual born, naturalized or registered in Hong Kong
• be bodily current in Canada after they apply and after they get everlasting residence;
• have legitimate momentary resident standing in Canada;
• intend to dwell in Canada, in any province or territory apart from the province of Quebec
• have graduated from a post-secondary designated studying establishment in Canada
  • within the 3 years earlier than you apply
  • with one of many following:
    • a diploma (not graduate or post-graduate) for a program of not less than 2 years
    • a level (affiliate, bachelor’s, grasp’s or doctoral)
    • a graduate or post-graduate diploma or certificates for a program of not less than 1 12 months and
  • with not less than 50% of theprogram accomplished in Canada (both in individual or on-line).

The second is the Canadian Work Expertise Stream. To be eligible for this stream, an applicant should:

• maintain a legitimate passport issued by one of many following:
  • Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area of the Folks’s Republic of China
  • United Kingdom to a British Nationwide (Abroad) as an individual born, naturalized or registered in Hong Kong
• be bodily current in Canada after they apply and after they get everlasting residence
• have legitimate momentary resident standing in Canada
• intend to dwell in Canada, in any province or territory apart from the province of Quebec
• have graduated within the 5 years earlier than you apply with one of many following:
  • a diploma (not graduate or post-graduate) for a program of not less than 2 years, or a level (for instance, an affiliate diploma, a bachelor’s diploma, a grasp’s diploma or a doctorate) from a post-secondary designated studying establishment in Canada
  • a graduate or post-graduate diploma or certificates for a program of not less than 1 12 months from a post-secondary designated studying establishment in Canada
  • a international academic credential equal to one of many following:
    • a Canadian post-secondary diploma (not graduate or post-graduate) for a program of not less than 2 years
    • a Canadian post-secondary diploma
• a Canadian graduate or post-graduate diploma or certificates for a program of not less than 1 12 months
  have labored in Canada for not less than 12 months full time, or an equal quantity of part-time hours within the 3 years earlier than they apply.

The next is the interior memorandum to the Minister which suggested on the creation of this program.

Hong Kong Memo

Statistics

Memorandums to the Minister

Hong Kong

Jurisprudence

In Chung v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 1218, Madam Justice McDonald dominated that it was unreasonable for a visa officer to find out that an applicant dedicated misrepresentation by declaring that they’d an academic credential that they later admitted to acquiring partly by plagerizing work.

Nevertheless, in Tsang v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 1941, Justice Zinn dominated that it was cheap for IRCC to find out that an applicant was inadmissible to Canada when there was robust proof that a person dedicated tutorial fraud. There was additionally proof {that a} WES report might have been inaccurate because of the varsity sending incorrect info.

The same consequence was reached in Lam v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2025 FC 1447, the place the Court docket dominated that IRCC fairly decided that a person who probably used a ghostwriter to finish their diploma was inadmissible.