67 When Hong Kong investment immigrants get their passports, should they give up their mainland accounts?

Hong Kong policy stipulates that after 7 years, as long as you are a Chinese national and have become a permanent resident of Hong Kong, you can apply for a passport. After obtaining a Hong Kong SAR passport, you can choose to give up your mainland household registration or keep it. Specifically, it can be divided into two situations:

1. Apply for a Home Return Permit

After 7 years, if you get a Hong Kong passport, you need to apply for a Home Return Permit from a China Travel Agency when you return to the mainland. The Home Return Permit is a pass for Hong Kong and Macao residents to travel to and from the mainland. The new "Hometown Return Permit" has two validity periods. One is issued to minors and is valid for three years; the other is issued to adults and is valid for ten years. Investment immigrants need to provide proof of mainland household registration cancellation when applying for a return permit. In this way, they gave up their mainland household registration.

2. Do not apply for a Home Return Permit

If you become a permanent resident of Hong Kong after 7 years and want to go to the Mainland from Hong Kong but do not apply for a Home Return Permit, there are two situations:< /p>

(1) Apply for a Hong Kong and Macao Permit, and use the Hong Kong and Macao Permit to travel from Hong Kong to the Mainland;

(2) You can hold a Hong Kong passport to a third country, and then go to the Mainland from the third country. Treat the third country as a transit point, so that you can have both a Chinese passport and a Hong Kong passport at the same time.

Another thing to note: If the investor holds a foreign passport but is already a Hong Kong resident, can he apply for a return permit?

Hong Kong residents who meet one of the following conditions can apply for a return permit in Hong Kong:

1. Hong Kong permanent residents who were born in Hong Kong and have Chinese nationality;

< p>2. Mainland residents who have settled in Hong Kong with approval and obtained Hong Kong resident status;

3. Chinese residents who were born outside Hong Kong and have established Hong Kong permanent resident status;

4. Foreign nationals or stateless persons who are permanent residents of Hong Kong and who have been approved to join or regain Chinese nationality.

Therefore, investors who hold foreign passports but are already Hong Kong residents cannot apply for a return permit, and the Hong Kong and Macao Permit is only for mainlanders, so it is not applicable to this type of investors. Therefore, if the investor wants to enter the mainland, he still needs to apply for an entry visa, unless his passport has a visa-free entry to China or he meets the above-mentioned Article 4 and is able to apply for a return permit.