Read the full judgment text of HCAL 465/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 September 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 40-year-old national of Sri Lanka who last arrived in Hong Kong on 11 May 2004 as a visitor under the passport of a different identity and was granted permission to remain in Hong Kong up to 10 June 2004 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested on 4 August 2005 for using a false travel document and making a false representation to an immigration officer, for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 14 months. Upon discharge from