What are the requirements to apply for the Hong Kong Award for Merit Scheme? What characteristics does the Immigration Department look for in an applicant for approval?
It is believed that many friends applying for the Hong Kong meritocracy would like to know what type of talents the Immigration Department favors more, Polaris Immigration shares with you the key points in the approval of the Hong Kong meritocracy program!
The Hong Kong Talent Program is currently the most popular Hong Kong identity project, this time because the Hong Kong Talent comes with the advantages:
Using the points system, to meet the score requirements can apply;
No immigration supervision, no hard long-term residence requirements in Hong Kong;
No investment in the purchase of real estate requirements, to be able to do without wealth;
No employment requirements in Hong Kong, the application is flexible. The application is flexible.
Basic Requirements for Hong Kong Talent Scheme:
Age: 18 years old or above;
Economic Ability: have certain financial ability (generally 200,000 for individual, 300,000+ for family);
Character: no crime, no bad immigration record;
Language: spoken and written Chinese and English or other languages;
Education : Bachelor's degree or above;
Points system requirements: fulfill the requirements of the General Points System or the Achievement-based Points System.
Only after meeting the above basic requirements can one apply for Hong Kong meritocracy. However, it is not that easy to apply for Hong Kong meritocracy. Those who have the following conditions have a greater advantage in applying!
1. People with international work experience
Applicants with 2 or more years of overseas work experience will be given an additional 15 points in the merit scoring.
International work experience is cumulative and can be proved by providing relevant proof of work: proof of overseas work + valid working visa + immigration record.
2. People with working experience in famous enterprises
Applicants with background in famous enterprises have high degree of personal professionalism, and the Immigration Department will be more favorable to applicants with working background in famous enterprises in the vetting process.
In the policy adjustment of Hong Kong Talents 2023, there is a new scoring item for "famous enterprises": if the applicant has no less than three years of work experience in multinational corporations or famous enterprises equivalent to the degree level or expert level, he/she will be able to add an additional 20 points.
Renowned companies include:
listed companies;
companies listed in the Forbes Global 2000;
Fortune 500 companies;
Hurun Report China 500 companies.
From this, we can understand that Hong Kong Premier's approval will place more emphasis on the value of the applicant's work!
3. Those who graduated from top 100 schools
If you graduated from one of the top 100 schools in the world, you can add an extra 30 points. With the same education level, applicants who graduated from prestigious schools have 30 more points than those who graduated from non-prestigious schools, greatly widening the score gap. If your academic specialization and job match each other, it's even more icing on the cake.
The list of global university rankings recognized by the Hong Kong Immigration Department are: ARWU, Times, USNews, QS.
4. People with Master's Degree
40 points for PhD/Double Master's Degree > 20 points for Master's Degree/Double Bachelor's Degree > 10 points for Bachelor's Degree
In the data of previous years' approvals, Master's Degree/Double Bachelor's Degree applicants are dominating the field.
5. Those who are engaged in popular/critical industries in Hong Kong
Hong Kong hopes to attract highly skilled people to come to Hong Kong for development and to improve the overall strength of Hong Kong. If applicants are engaged in popular/critical shortage/emerging industries in Hong Kong, the approval rate is certainly high.
To summarize, technical, research, and R&D talents are advantageous, such as artificial intelligence, algorithms, communications, fintech, game development, cloud technology, cross-border law, semiconductor, new energy, and new material R&D.
Otherwise, people working as general teachers, sales, operations, and preparers are hard to get approved, have little competitive advantage, and have almost no chance of getting approved.
6, people who meet the Hong Kong talent list
Hong Kong has developed a list of 13 talents, if you meet the requirements of any one of the list of talents, then the approval rate can be said to be almost 100%!
7, people with senior management experience
The richer the work experience, and at the same time both senior management experience, in the merit scoring can take up to 40 points, in the latest interpretation of the merit policy, the Hong Kong government also said that it will be more important to work experience.
The Hong Kong government has detailed requirements for senior management experience, the number of people in management, management level, etc. There are corresponding standards, if it is a managerial post in a small company, usually can not be added to the senior management points. This needs to be specifically assessed by professionals.
While the Hong Kong Talent Program can submit an application with 80 points, if you want to be approved, of course, you have to have some of the characteristics of the highly approved population. If you don't have some advantages, even if you meet the application requirements, it is still difficult to be approved.
Not all of the above 7 points need to be met, as long as you have 2-3 of them, will greatly improve the approval rate!
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