Hong Kong bolsters efforts to attract global I&T talent: Updates to Technology Talent Admission Scheme

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The measures include streamlining application procedures to allow tech companies and eligible talent to submit applications for quotas and visas/entry permits in parallel.

To expedite the admission of innovation and technology (I&T) talent from around the world, Hong Kong's Innovation and Technology Commission has launched further enhancement measures to the Technology Talent Admission Scheme (TechTAS).

These measures aim to support eligible companies in facilitating their technology-related research and development (R&D) activities in Hong Kong, thereby enlarging the city’s I&T talent pool and contributing to local I&T development.

The enhancement measures comprise:

• Streamlining application procedures to allow technology companies and eligible talent to submit applications for quotas and visas/entry permits in parallel.
  
• Lifting the requirement of engaging in R&D in 14 designated technology areas to better address ever-changing I&T development.
  
• Launching a new dedicated application channel for the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park to provide one-stop assistance to their tenants and incubatees in application and subsequent follow-up action.

Launched in June 2018, TechTAS provides a fast-track arrangement for admitting overseas and Mainland technology talent. Successful companies will be given quotas for bringing in such people for undertaking R&D work.