With South Asians dominating the number of illegal immigrants in Hong Kong, its administration has advised Indians not to get misled and enter the city without the proper documents for employment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to take the opportunity to advise that Indian nationals should not be misled by other agents or person. If they want to come and work in Hong Kong, they should have the proper documents,\u201d Corrado Chow, the assistant director of immigration department, Hong Kong Special Administrative region, told reporters here Monday.<\/p>\n
Since 2007, over 1,500 Indian nationals have been caught in Hong Kong for overstaying their visa validity period. Further, 122 other Indians were found to be illegally employed in the city, despite not having the requisite documents for employment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of these Indians are involved in manual labour, selling and buying of scrap metal and working in rural areas,\u201d Chow said, who with another official from his department, is on a four-nation tour in South Asia. Besides India, he will visit Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Over 1,600 Indians also were found to be in violation of Hong Kong\u2019s immigration rules in 2004, but are still staying on. \u201cThey should have been removed, but they continue to stay on as their appeals are being processed and due to legal procedures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chow said the total number of foreign nationals who are making \u201cclaims to stay on\u201d are 6,400, \u201cout of which three-fourths are from South Asia\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndians account for the second largest group (of illegal immigrants) after Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Last year in November, Hong Kong, which has autonomous powers to apply immigration controls, had introduced a new Immigration Amendment Ordinance which had further clarified that no foreigner could be employed unless they had the proper documents.<\/p>\n
However, Chow said that the idea was not to target any particular country like India, especially in light of the close historical ties and background of British colonialism in both regions. \u201cWe also want to point out India is the only country among South Asia which has a visa free arrangement (for 14 days),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But, he said that all foreign nationals have to respect the laws of the land and take the proper route for employment in the state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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