Introduction
Twelve international banks and financial institutions are set to file submissions to the Court of Appeal, after a British lesbian’s legal bid to obtain a dependent visa from the Hong Kong Immigration Department was denied last year.
Last March, the High Court rejected a judicial review application from the woman known as QT, who entered into a civil partnership with another woman, SS, in Britain. When SS moved to Hong Kong to work at a technology firm in 2011, QT was denied a dependent visa, and has had to repeatedly enter the city as a tourist.