A government spokesman announced that from September 8 this year, the Immigration Department will revise fees for some services including the issuing of visas/entry permits and travel documents and dispatch services for delivering travel documents to places outside Hong Kong.
“The Government sets and reviews various fees and charges according to the ‘cost recovery’ and ‘user pays’ principles, while fees charged by the Government should in general be set at levels adequate to recover the full cost of providing the goods or services,” the spokesman said.
The latest costing review showed that the fees payable for services including the issuing of visas/entry permits and travel documents and dispatch services for delivering travel documents to places outside Hong Kong are not adequate to recover the full cost of providing those services.
“Taking into consideration that it is impractical to recover the full cost of all fees in one go, the fees of the services concerned will be increased by 3 per cent to 51 per cent with a view to achieving full cost recovery gradually. The fees will have little impact on the daily lives of most people and limited impact on general business activities,” the spokesman added.
The Immigration Department regularly reviews the arrangements for handling various types of applications and services with a view to improving the cost-effectiveness as well as the quality of services. Measures are in place to control the cost of providing the services.
The proposed legislative amendments related to the fee revisions was tabled at the Legislative Council for negative vetting last July 2 this year. The fee revisions will take effect after completion of the necessary legislative procedures. A table setting out the existing and revised fees is in the Annex.
Source: https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/press/press-releases/20250625a.html
