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| Immigration Department |
Lying to Immigration officers has resulted in a 10-month jail sentence for a Filipina, who had earlier pleaded guilty at Shatin Court to two charges arising from her applications for domestic helper visas.
Acting Principal Magistrate Cheang Kei-hong sentenced Annabelle
Isidro, 56 years old, to eight months in jail for “making a false
representation to an Immigration Officer lawfully acting under or in the
execution of Part III of the Immigration Ordinance.”
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
The charge arose from Isidro lying when she declared to an
Immigration officer on Nov. 5, 2022, when she was extending her stay, that she would
work for a certain Chu Ka-kit.
Two years later, she conspired with a certain "Gege" in "dishonestly and falsely representing" to Immigration that she would work for a certain Choy Wa-yee, as a result of which she was granted another DH visa on December 2024 and was cut off on March 15, 2025.
The charge said she induced Immigration officerss to grant her permission to remain in Hong Kong "under circumstances in which they would not otherwise have granted such permission.”
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| Basahin ang detalye |
For committing a crime of "conspiracy to defraud," she was meted another eight months in jail by Magistrate Cheang.
But the magistrate ordered that only two months of the second sentence run after the first, resulting in a total sentence of 10 months.
