The entry requirements for the Far East destination of Hong Kong are sometimes confused with China and Macau. Hong Kong along with Macau is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of China. It would be worthwhile for British travellers to take a look at some visa and passport related information before paying for your airfares to Hong Kong. The information finds it source in the websites of Foreign and Commonwealth Office and that of Hong Kong’s Immigration Department which must be referred for detailed insight.
Visa Tips
British citizens can rush to buy tickets fo flights to Hong Kong since they can stay in the destination for six months without a visa. Other British nationals including British Protected persons, British subjects, British Overseas citizens, and British Overseas Territories citizens are allowed to stay for 90 days.
Citizens of British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, and British Antarctic Territory can also stay for 90 days if they don’t procure a visa before catching their cheap flights to Hong Kong.
Passport Tips
For a six month long visa free stay in Hong Kong, British citizens taking flights to Hong Kong must ensure that their passports are valid for six months to cover this duration.
In case of less than six months’ validity, you may be allowed to stay only for an extra month over your originally planned stay. However, this duration must also be covered by your passport validity.
Overstaying the allowed duration may result in heavy penalties which can easily nullify the savings you made on booking those cheap flights to Hong Kong.
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