Useful Information

According to the Immigration Ordinance, Chapter 115, Laws of Hong Kong:

• Under section 36(1), an immigration officer and any police officer may require a person—
  1. who is detained under section 27, 32, 34 or 37ZK; or
  2. who, being liable to be detained under any of those sections, is not for the time being so detained,

  to enter into a recognizance in the prescribed form in such amount, with such number of sureties and subject to such conditions as the immigration officer or police officer may reasonably require or impose; and where a person who is so detained enters into such a recognizance he may be released.

• Under section 36(1A), without limiting subsection (1), the conditions of a recognizance imposed under that subsection may include a condition that the person must—
1. report in person at the time and intervals, and at the office or police station, specified by the immigration officer or police officer;
2. notify an immigration officer or police officer in writing of any change in the person’s residential or correspondence address as soon as practicable after the change;
3. (if the person is a claimant as defined by section 37U(1)) attend interviews as required by section 37ZAB.

The address of the Recognizance (Reporting) Offices of the Immigration Department is as follows:

• Enforcement Tower, Immigration Headquarters, 61 Po Yap Road, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories; and
• Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre, 84 Castle Peak Road, Castle Peak Bay, Tuen Mun, New Territories.