Source document

Immigration Department Annual Report 2012, Chapter 1 (English web edition)

Immigration Department, Hong Kong SAR · Government · 2013 · Hong Kong

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What the document holds

Chapter 1 of the ImmD annual report (Visa and Policies): admission schemes and statistics for visitors, employment, talent schemes, students, dependants, one-way permits, right of abode etc. (out of scope) and a section on the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme. CIES section, as at 31 Dec 2012: applications received (entrant and dependant), approvals (formal and in principle; parts add up to the printed total), investment total, the Oct 2010 threshold rise and real-estate suspension (event already in the dataset), and the CPA-report count and share. Main figures were already recorded; this pass adds the CPA count and share. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).

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About the document

What it covers Cumulative CIES applications, approvals and investment as at 2012-12-31.

Notes Official annual report (HTML). The CIES paragraph gives cumulative figures since the scheme opened on 27 Oct 2003. Amounts are in Hong Kong dollars ('

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