Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2675/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 June 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 46-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong on 5 April 2015 with permission to continue to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract on 5 April 2017 or within 14 days of its early termination, but when her employment was prematurely terminated on 14 September 2015, she did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 11 November 2015 she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement clai