Source document
LCQ8: Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (written reply by the Secretary for Security, 12 December 2018)
Has everything in it been taken?
CompleteReviewed 8 Oct 2026
Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.
What the document holds
LegCo written reply (12 Dec 2018) on the suspended CIES: yearly 2015 to Nov 2018 outstanding applications, refusals, approvals, persons acquiring right of abode, refused extensions of stay (columns (v) and (vi) not applicable per Note 3); rules on two-year extensions and no top-up requirement. All numbers already in the dataset; the $10 million threshold appears only in the question. No new rows.
What it supports
21 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Numbers (20)
- Applications approved1,507 applications2018-01/2018-11 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications approved2,640 applications2017 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications approved2,667 applications2016 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications approved2,739 applications2015 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications pending839 applications2018-11-30 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications pending3,375 applications2017-12-31 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications pending7,428 applications2016-12-31 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications pending11,429 applications2015-12-31 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications rejected0 applications2018-01/2018-11 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications rejected4 applications2017 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications rejected6 applications2016 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Applications rejected2 applications2015 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Investor residence renewals refused24 applications2018-01/2018-11 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Investor residence renewals refused4 applications2017 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Investor residence renewals refused4 applications2016 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Investor residence renewals refused0 applications2015 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Permanent residence (settlement) grants to programme participants1,463 persons2018-01/2018-11 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Permanent residence (settlement) grants to programme participants1,101 persons2017 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Permanent residence (settlement) grants to programme participants728 persons2016 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
- Permanent residence (settlement) grants to programme participants404 persons2015 · Hong Kong Government 2018Final figureHong Kong · Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES)
About the document
What it covers Per year 2015 to Nov 2018: outstanding, refused and approved applications; persons acquiring the right of abode; refused extensions of stay.
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