Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1419/2024 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 6 August 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Vietnam who arrived in Hong Kong on 25 October 2023 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 1 November 2023 when she did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on 9 February 2024. After she was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, she raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if she returned to Vietnam she would be harmed or killed by her creditors over her unpaid debts.
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