Thai With Hong Kong Sar Residency, Visa To Uk

[deankham]

Hi All,

I know this is a Thai site and not a Hong Kong help site, but some of you may have knowledge or experience of this.

My Thai girlfriend will shortly be able to get her Hong Kong SAR permament residency card as she will have lived and worked there for 7 years.

Once she has got this does anybody know the rules for getting a visitors visa for the UK?

..As I read it currently as She is a thai passport holder but currently in Hong Kong she needs a visa to visit the UK. However when she has HK(SAR) residents card does she still need a visa? If she had a HK passport then she would not. I guess it really comes down to how the HK Residency is classed. Is it a passport of something different?

If it is a passport then how would this effect her visits to Thailand? Can she still visit thailand as a Thai national?

Thanks in advance,

Deano.

[Eff1n2ret]

A Thai passport holder needs a visa for the UK, irrespective of his/her immigration status in any other country. Hong-Kong SAR passport holders don't need a visa to visit the UK.

Presumably your g/f's acquisition of Hong-Kong residence will enhance her prospects of being issued with a visa.

I can't imagine any bar on her entering her own country. Thousands of Thais resident abroad do so all the time. Why couldn't she?