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Hong Kong has its own immigration policy and administration.

Permanent residents of Hong Kong with PRC nationality hold a different type of passport, called the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport, which is different from that for PRC citizens in Mainland China.

Hong Kong permanent residents and mainland Chinese need a passport-like document ( the " Home Return Permit " for Hong Kong permanent residents and the Two-way Permit for Mainland Chinese ) to cross the Sino-Hong Kong border.

Visitors from other countries and regions not participting in waiver programme are required to apply for visas directly to the Hong Kong Immigration Department.