Read the full judgment text of HCAL 313/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 January 2026.
1. The Applicant is a 58-year-old national of Pakistan who had in previous occasions arrived in Hong Kong as a visitor under various identities and subsequently overstayed, and upon his arrests he was invariably repatriated to Pakistan, and on 24 January 2009 he again entered Hong Kong illegally and was arrested by police on 17 February 2009 for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 12 months. Upon his discharge from prison and was referred to the Immigration Departmen