After Taiwan‘s Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Investment Review Committee added conditions for Hong Kong investors in March, the review has become increasingly strict. Immigration companies confirmed to the station that in addition to owning a physical storefront and employing at least two Taiwanese employees
Non-Hong Kong-born, older and low-education Hong Kong people are now hard to get approval from the Taiwan authorities to immigrate. The Land Commission responded that the application requirements have not changed and that the review is to eliminate “fake investment and real immigration” situations.
There are media and social groups about immigration to Taiwan recently, although Taiwan has not modified the immigration policy of Hong Kong people, but the review on the covert increase in the threshold, so that many applications for immigration to Taiwan, Hong Kong people have been unable to wait for approval.
Zhang Xiangling, head of Treasure Island Immigration Company, said in an interview with this station that in the past, Hong Kong people born on the mainland and raised and established in Hong Kong, applying to immigrate to Taiwan, usually passed, but the situation has changed since March this year.
December 19, 2020, Zhang Xiangling, head of Treasure Island Immigration Company: Taiwan is secretly blocking applications from mainland-born, older and low-education Hong Kong people to immigrate. (Photo by Chung Kwong-ching)
Zhang Xiangling said: I have not a mainland-born Hong Kong people, through the six million investment immigrants successfully get identity cards; professionals, I case to go to January next year at the earliest, there will be a mainland-born nurse then there will be results. Our naturalization (to obtain identity cards) case is also, from August 17 after the investment immigrants naturalization, I have just been stressed, I do not have a mainland-born Hong Kong people successfully get the identity card.
Zhang Xiangling pointed out that in addition to mainland-born, retired people are also included in the “blacklist”.
Zhang Xiangling said: educational standards have been completed different, now the minimum consumption has been a university graduate, as well as Hong Kong-born, quite frankly, if it comes to mainland-born they are not approved, as well as young. Of course, some applicants may not be this age, our own collection of standards hope that under 45 years old, basically retirees can not come, unless they use their adult children to apply, if the children are young, the investment review committee still want them, because they need to be on their side of the force.
Land Commission Deputy Director Li Li Zhen accepted media inquiries, did not admit to raise the threshold for investment immigration. She said that she saw many cases, after the investment immigrants to obtain identity cards to withdraw their investments, the current review is mainly to eliminate the so-called “fake investment and real immigration” situation.
On December 17, 2020, Deputy Director of the Mainland Affairs Commission Li Li Zhen: The review of Hong Kong people’s investment immigration applications is to eliminate the situation of “fake investment and real immigration”. (Chung Guangzheng photo)
Li Li Zhen said: that we now this review process, in fact, is to return to the original, we design that you come to investment immigration, that is to really have investment, so it should not be for say, you just said that there is to raise the threshold of such a situation, that instead I think is to ensure that really want to investment immigration of some cases, do not say, some are using counterfeit way, after obtaining the identity of the withdrawal of capital I think it is such a situation. At present, our entire review of cases are continuing to grow.
Li Li Zhen said that for professionals to apply for immigration, last year there were more than 5,000 people, this year there have been more than 7,400 people approved, so there is no, as the media said, is not really to assist Hong Kong people, immigration policy is to “solicit talent” as a starting point.
Li Li Zhen said: because in fact we are now for professional, is really we need, to our economy and industrial development of these professionals to help, we are very welcome. So we now have also amended a bill for foreign professionals, that currently has a completed preview. Therefore, we hope to increase the attraction of talents. Then, for example, of course, we also have to take into account the so-called national security considerations, as well as the epidemic prevention, we have to strengthen to attract talents. As for the part of assisting Hong Kong people, we have already set up a Hong Kong and Macao exchange version of the service office.
Zhang Xiangling, the head of the Baodao Immigration Company, believes that although the Taiwanese authorities have not amended the immigration law, but for those applications that do not want to be approved, they have been asking for additional relevant supporting documents, so that applicants know the difficulties and retreat. She said that some customers are impatient to wait and choose to immigrate to the United Kingdom instead.
Zhang Xiangling said: BNO is there, because some of what I just said, old, low education, Taiwan side clearly will not be approved, this group of customers are looking for a way out, as far as I know, our company has some of our customers thus take BNO to the United Kingdom, it is true. This is true. The number of clients has decreased by about one-fifth, that is, 20%. They feel that there is no threshold in the UK, with the BNO to buy their own tickets, in short, settle (settle) well, in short, you can say so, he felt that the initiative in their hands, he felt that the initiative to immigrate to Taiwan he can not say anything at all, I think this is the most insecure place for them.
According to the Immigration Department, a total of 1,474 Hong Kong people were granted settlement permits in 2019, and this year, from January to November, the number was 1,397 people.
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