Libao Aurelia Paz Balmelero v The Adjudicator of the Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office appointed to determine the Applicant’s Petition

Read the full judgment text of HCAL 883/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 November 2019.

1. The Applicant is a 48-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong in December 2015 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract or within 14 days of its early termination, but when it was prematurely terminated on 12 February 2017, she did not depart and instead overstayed until 28 February 2017 when she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if she returned t

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