LCQ15: Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (written reply by the Secretary for Security, 11 November 2009)

LegCo written reply (11 Nov 2009): 5,182 applicants and 9,945 dependants approved to end-Sep 2009, by applicant category; investment of HK$36,665.1 million by six asset classes (adds up); 53 refusals; yearly applications 2004 to Jan-Sep 2009; insurance products recently added as permissible assets; seven-year residence rule for permanent residence. Numbers were all already in the dataset; adds one event (insurance products added, date not given). The $6.5 million threshold appears only in the question and is recorded from other sources.