Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2055/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 December 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of the Philippines who arrived in Hong Kong on 28 October 2019 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 11 November 2019 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 27 November 2019 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if he returned to the Philippines he would be harmed or killed by his creditor for failing to repay his debts. He was subsequently released
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