Read the full judgment text of HCAL 613/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 December 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 44-year-old national of Indonesia who arrived in Hong Kong on 25 September 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 her last employment was prematurely terminated on 29 January 2018, she did not depart and instead overstayed, and some 2 ½ years later on 12 August 2020 she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim for protec