Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2340/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 December 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 30-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong on 16 June 2018 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 30 June 2018 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and almost 8 months later on 20 March 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 subse
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