Quoting from the Thaivisa guide to getting a Visa in Hong Kong:

" Avoid Hong Kong. Hong Kong savagely and capriciously rejects most everyone. The Hong Kong consulate staff likes to loudly shout to the rejected applicants that they should have gone to Penang to get their visas."

Is it really that bad?

I would like to visit Hong Kong but must get a 60+30 tourist visa this time.

I am British. Will I get one? How can they reject everyone?

Cheers,

Ace

After the visa regulations changed in October 2006, I emailed the various consulates and embassies in SE Asia. hong Kong were quoting rules which went out of date in 2003/4 but even when presented with the updated regulations, they would not budge !

Non Immigrant "O" needed your wife, kids, dog, 200 witnesses and a chimpanzee on a piano before they would consider it ! Seriously though, they wanted everything but the kitchen sink.

They would also not concede that a retirement visa could be issued at age 50 but rather they still believed it was 55. When did that rule change, years ago !

I got a tourist visa from Hong Kong several months ago, no problem. I was with the Thai girlfriend, so this may have helped. When I was there, there was maybe one other westerner getting a visa. Hotel rates are expensive.

So it's fair to say that a regular single entry tourist visa should be ok? But retirement visa etc. not so good.