At least two employment agencies have been found offering allegedly bogus jobs to mainland Chinese talent in Hong Kong, assisting them in securing visa renewals for fees of up to 500,000 yuan (US$70,200), the Post has found.<\/p>\n
The allegations surrounding the companies come amid a peak period of visa expirations under the government\u2019s top talent scheme.<\/p>\n
Tactics deployed by the agencies included offering employment contracts and payslips without requiring actual work, as well as fabricating evidence of meetings \u2013 all designed to help mainlanders extend their stay in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need [to work], but you\u2019ll need to act as if you are actually employed. For example, you should attend an online meeting every month. Our side will send you some work reports to share through company accounts regularly,\u201d an agent told the Post reporter via WeChat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you renew your visas, you could show these [records] to immigration authorities to prove that you are a disciplined employee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visa expirations under Hong Kong\u2019s talent admission schemes hit a peak in the second quarter of this year, while 13,678 were due to expire by the end of August, according to the Labour and Welfare Bureau.<\/p>\n
Under the Top Talent Pass Scheme launched in 2022, applicants need to prove that they are employed at a market rate for a job that aligns with their qualifications, or show that they have set up a business in Hong Kong, to qualify for an extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two employment agencies have been found offering allegedly bogus jobs to mainland Chinese talent in Hong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,1395,145020,145027,145024,3749,145023,14969,897,57385,145021,529,70149,138685,145025,145026,145028,13005,145022,16,15,1236,145019],"class_list":{"0":"post-424703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-eurusau-group","11":"tag-feg-holdings-corporation","12":"tag-guanglian-engineering","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-hong-kong-productivity-council","15":"tag-immigration-department","16":"tag-jobs","17":"tag-mainland","18":"tag-mong-kok","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-rednote","21":"tag-renewal","22":"tag-rita-cheng-rui","23":"tag-sam-guo","24":"tag-shihua","25":"tag-talent","26":"tag-top-talent-pass-scheme","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-visa","30":"tag-visa-renewal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115204911519622055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}