Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1229/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 December 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Indonesia who last arrived in Hong Kong on 26 May 2019 with permission to continue 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 employment was prematurely terminated on 19 June 2019, she did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police more than one year later on 2 October 2020. After she was referred to the Immigration Department for in