Hong Kong Visa

All visitors to Hong Kong must have a passport that is valid for at least one month to six months (depending on nationality) after the period of their intended stay in Hong Kong. Nationals of most countries do not require visas and can stay for periods varying from 7 days to 180 days, depending on nationality.

Travelers can apply for Hong Kong visa from the nearest Chinese embassy or consulate. As an alternative, you may also submit your visa application to the HKSAR Immigration Department either directly by post or through a local sponsor. To shorten the processing time, application forms and supporting documents can be sent by fax in the first instance. However, the original copy of the duly completed application form and the photographs required should be sent immediately to the HKSAR Immigration Department by air mail. A visa/entry permit will be issued only on receipt of an original, properly completed visa/entry permit application form.

Passport holders of the following countries enjoy visa-free access to Hong Kong.

Nationality of foreign country (Territory)/ Type of Travel Document

Visa free period for visit not exceeding

Always require VISA, except in direct transit by air and when the person does not leave the airport transit area

AFGHANISTAN

-

Visa Required

ALBANIA

-

Visa Required

ALGERIA

14 Days

-

ANDORRA

90 Days

-

ANGOLA

-

Visa Required

ANGOLA Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

ANGUILLA

90 Days

-

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA

90 Days

-

ARGENTINA

90 Days

-

ARMENIA

-

Visa Required

AUSTRALIA

90 Days

-

AUSTRIA

90 Days

-

AZERBAIJAN

-

Visa Required

BAHAMAS

90 Days

-

BAHRAIN

30 Days

-

BANGLADESH

-

Visa Required

BANGLADESH Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

BARBADOS

90 Days

-

BELARUS

-

Visa Required

BELGIUM

90 Days

-

BELIZE

90 Days

-

BENIN

14 Days

-

BERMUDA

90 Days

-

BHUTAN

14 Days

-

BOLIVIA

30 Days

-

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

14 Days

-

BOTSWANA

90 Days

-

BRAZIL

90 Days

-

BRITAIN (British citizens)

180 Days

-

BRITAIN (British Overseas Territories citizens, British Overseas citizens, British subjects and British Protected persons)

90 Days

-

BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

90 Days

-

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY

90 Days

-

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

90 Days

-

BRUNEI

90 Days

-

BULGARIA

90 Days

-

BURKINA FASO

14 Days

-

BURUNDI

-

Visa Required

BURUNDI Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

CAMBODIA

-

Visa Required

CAMEROON

-

Visa Required

CAMEROON Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

CANADA

90 Days

-

CAPE VERDE (REPUBLIC OF)

30 Days

-

CAYMAN ISLANDS

90 Days

-

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

14 Days

-

CHAD

14 Days

-

CHILE

90 Days

-

COLOMBIA

90 Days

-

COMOROS

14 Days

-

CONGO (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF) (Formerly known as Zaire)

-

Visa Required

CONGO (REPUBLIC OF)

-

Visa Required

CONGO (REPUBLIC OF) Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

COSTA RICA

30 Days

-

Costa Rican Provisional passports

-

Visa Required

"Documento de Identidad Y Viaje" issued by Costa Rican Government

-

Visa Required

COTE D'IVOIRE (REPUBLIC OF)

-

Visa Required

CROATIA

14 Days

-

CUBA

-

Visa Required

CYPRUS (REPUBLIC OF)

90 Days

-

CZECH REPUBLIC

90 Days

-

DENMARK

90 Days

-

DJIBOUTI

14 Days

-

DOMINICA (COMMONWEALTH OF)

90 Days

-

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

30 Days

-

ECUADOR

90 Days

-

EGYPT

90 Days

-

EL SALVADOR

30 Days

-

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

14 Days

-

ERITREA


Visa Required

ESTONIA

90 Days

-

ETHIOPIA

-

Visa Required

ETHIOPIA Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

FALKLAND ISLANDS & DEPENDENCIES

90 Days

-

FAROE ISLANDS

90 Days

-

FIJI

90 Days

-

FINLAND

90 Days

-

FRANCE

90 Days

-

GABON

14 Days

-

GAMBIA

90 Days

-

GEORGIA

-

Visa Required

GERMANY

90 Days

-

GHANA

-

Visa Required

GHANA Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

GIBRALTAR

90 Days

-

GREECE

90 Days

-

GREENLAND

90 Days

-

GRENADA

90 Days

-

GUATEMALA

30 Days

-

GUINEA

14 Days

-

GUINEA-BISSAU

14 Days

-

GUYANA

90 Days

-

HAITI

14 Days

-

HONDURAS

30 Days

-

HUNGARY

90 Days

-

ICELAND

90 Days

-

INDIA

14 Days

-

INDONESIA

30 Days

-

IRAN

-

Visa Required

IRAQ

-

Visa Required

IRELAND (REPUBLIC OF)

90 Days

-

ISRAEL

90 Days

-

ITALY

90 Days

-

JAMAICA

90 Days

-

JAPAN

90 Days

-

JORDAN

30 Days

-

KAZAKHSTAN

14 days


KENYA

90 Days

-

KIRIBATI

90 Days

-

KOREA (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)

-

Visa Required

KOREA (REPUBLIC OF)

90 Days

-

KUWAIT

30 Days

-

KYRGYSTAN

-

Visa Required

LAOS

-

Visa Required

LATVIA

90 Days

-

LEBANON

-

Visa Required

LESOTHO

14 Days

-

LIBERIA

-

Visa Required

LIBYA

-

Visa Required

LIECHTENSTEIN

90 Days

-

LITHUANIA

90 Days

-

LUXEMBOURG

90 Days

-

MACEDONIA

14 Days

-

MADAGASCAR

14 Days

-

MALAWI

90 Days

-

MALAYSIA

90 Days

-

MALDIVES

90 Days

-

MALI

14 Days

-

MALTA

90 Days

-

MARSHALL ISLANDS (REPUBLIC OF)

14 Days

-

MAURITANIA

14 Days

-

MAURITIUS

90 Days

-

MEXICO

90 Days

-

MICRONESIA (FEDERATED STATES OF)

14 Days

-

MOLDOVA (REPUBLIC OF)

-

Visa Required

MONACO

90 Days

-

MONGOLIA

14 Days

-

MONTENEGRO ( REPUBLIC OF )

-

Visa Required

MONTSERRAT

90 Days

-

MOROCCO

30 Days

-

MOZAMBIQUE

14 Days

-

MYANMAR

-

Visa Required

NAMIBIA

90 Days

-

NAURU

90 Days

-

NEPAL

-

Visa Required

NETHERLANDS

90 Days

-

NEW ZEALAND

90 Days

-

NICARAGUA

-

Visa Required

NIGER

14 Days

-

NIGERIA

-

Visa Required

NORWAY

90 Days

-

OMAN

30 Days

-

PAKISTAN

-

Visa Required

PAKISTAN Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

PALAU

14 Days

-

PALESTINE (STATES OF)

-

Visa Required

PANAMA

-

Visa Required

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

90 Days

-

PARAGUAY

30 Days

-

PERU

30 Days

-

Special Peruvian passports

-

Visa Required

PHILIPPINES

14 Days

-

PITCAIRN, HENDERSON, DUCIE & OENO ISLANDS

90 Days

-

POLAND

90 Days

-

PORTUGAL

90 Days

-

QATAR

30 Days

-

ROMANIA

90 Days

-

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

14 Days

-

RWANDA

14 Days

-

SAMOA (WESTERN)

30 Days

-

SAN MARINO

90 Days

-

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

14 Days

-

SAUDI ARABIA

30 Days

-

SENEGAL

-

Visa Required

SERBIA (Republic of)

-

Visa Required

SEYCHELLES

90 Days

-

SIERRA LEONE

-

Visa Required

SINGAPORE

90 Days

-

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

90 Days

-

SLOVENIA

90 Days

-

SOLOMON ISLANDS

-

Visa Required

SOMALIA

-

Visa Required

SOUTH AFRICA

30 Days

-

SPAIN

90 Days

-

SRI LANKA

-

Visa Required

SRI LANKA DIPLOMATIC/OFFICIAL PASSPORT

14 Days

-

ST. HELENA

90 Days

-

ST. HELENA DEPENDENCIES (ASCENSION, TRISTAN DA CUNHA)

90 Days

-

ST. KITTS - NEVIS ANGUILLA

90 Days

-

ST. LUCIA

90 Days

-

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

90 Days

-

SUDAN

-

Visa Required

SURINAME

14 Days

-

SWAZILAND

90 Days

-

SWEDEN

90 Days

-

SWITZERLAND

90 Days

-

SYRIA

-

Visa Required

TAJIKISTAN

-

Visa Required

TANZANIA

90 Days

-

THAILAND

30 Days

-

THE SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS

90 Days

-

THE SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA

90 Days

-

TOGO

-

Visa Required

TOGO Diplomatic/Official Passport

14 Days

-

TONGA

90 Days

-

Tongan National passports

-

Visa Required

Tongan Protected Persons passports

-

Visa Required

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

90 Days

-

TUNISIA

30 Days

-

TURKEY

90 Days

-

TURKMENISTAN

-

Visa Required

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

90 Days

-

TUVALU

90 Days

-

TUVALU (with national status stated as 'I-TUVALU')

-

Visa Required

UGANDA

30 Days

-

UKRAINE

14 Days

-

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

30 Days

-

URUGUAY

90 Days

-

Uruguay passports issued under Decree 289/90

-

Visa Required

U.S.A.

90 Days

-

US TRUST TERRITORY OF PACIFIC ISLANDS (holders of US Trust Territory passports only)

14 Days

-

UZBEKISTAN

-

Visa Required

VANUATU

90 Days

-

VATICAN CITY

14 Days

-

Vatican Service passports

-

Visa Required

VENEZUELA

90 Days

-

VIETNAM

-

Visa Required

YEMEN (REPUBLIC OF)

30 Days

-

ZAMBIA

90 Days

-

ZIMBABWE

90 Days

-

All 'stateless' travel document holders

-

Visa Required

Nationals of other foreign countries do not require visas for a visit

7 Days

-

Visa Fee Table


Item

Fees

1.

Ordinary visa

HKD160

2.

Transit visa

HKD84

3.

Change of conditions of stay or extension of limit of stay

HKD160

4.

Endorsement to a travel document for which no specific fee is provided

HKD165

5.

Service charge for supplying, on application, a copy of any document, or for making or forwarding, or both, a request or recommendation to any authority of a foreign state or Commonwealth country, for consular or nationality registration or for the issue or renewal of a passport or other travel document or of a document of identity or for the grant of a visa or entry permit

HKD180

(1 USD≈8 HKD)

Please note that the above information is for reference only. It is suggested that travelers contact and check with Chinese embassy or consulate in your country (see Chinese embassies), or with Immigration Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government (Website: http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/hkvisas_visit.htm) for the most updated information on entry formalities.

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Q: David Asked on 2013-05-15 Reply
Hi, I''m planning to go to HK in early November for holidays. I hold an Australian passport which is visa free but my wife needs one because she''s holding a vietnamese passport. Where can I get a Hong Kong visa for her in Australia and how much and how long does the process take
Dear David, We don't provide this kind of service for clients. You need to contact the Chinese Embassy in Australia directly. It lasts about 2-4 working days and it costs about 50 Australian Dollars per person. For the details you could check it on their official website, please click: http://au.china-embassy.org/eng/ Lussie Lu Replied on 2013-05-16
Q: Sanjar Asked on 2013-04-23 Reply
Hi, I am from Afghanistan and currently working in shanghai. I want to visit Hong Kong to do implementation for customers. Can you please give me detailed information about how and where to apply? Thank You very much in advance.

Hi Sanjar, sorry, as a travel agency, we really don't know the detailed information on this. Here is a website for your reference: http://www.customs.gov.hk/en/home/index.html  Hope it helps.

Whitney Liao Replied on 2013-04-23
Q: fifi Asked on 2013-04-20 Reply
hi,i''m from ethiopia and i'' studying in guangzhou,in july i have internhip to Hong Kong,i know i need visa to go there but i dont know where to go to start the prosses
Dear fifi, If you got a China visa, you could go to Hong Kong without any other visa. It is easy to buy the train ticket at the train station and you could take the train from Guangzhou East railway station to Hong Kong. It takes about 2 hours. Lussie Lu Replied on 2013-04-22
Q: fifi Asked on 2013-04-20 Reply
hi,im from Ethiopian and i''m studing in guangzhou and i have internship to hong kong in july,i know i need visa to go to hong kong but i dont know where to go to start the prosses
Dear fifi, If you got a China visa, you could go to Hong Kong. It is easy to buy the train ticket at the train station and you could take the train from Guangzhou East railway station to Hong Kong. It takes about 2 hours. Lussie Lu Replied on 2013-04-22
Q: Nadia Asked on 2013-04-15 Reply
Hello there, im planning a week holiday in Hong Kong. I hold a Peruvian passport but live in Australia since 2006. I would appriciate if u tell me if i need to apply for a visit visa. I got a bit confused because you mention special passport need visa.

Hi Nadia,  a Peru passport holder can stay in HK for a maximum of 30 days with visa free.  See here: http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/services/hk-visas/visit-transit/visit-visa-entry-permit.html

Whitney Liao Replied on 2013-04-16