Overseas passport has more advantage？

jk121299

Both parents are Hong Kong people with Australian passport and speak cantonese at home. When we apply IS for our son，should we use Aust passport or HKSAR passport？ which one has higher chance of getting in？ The issue is if policy is say for example to take 30% local student and 70% foreigners， seems like applying with australian passport is better， but then we have to compete with the native english speakers？will your answer different for different schools？

happy_mum

Why not apply for Australian International School then? If your child has Aussie passport, you will have priority to get in. ESF school policy's I always find that it is a bit of a meth.

minirat

happy_mum 發表於 14-8-13 20:47
Why not apply for Australian International School then? If your child has Aussie passport, you will  ...

Yes, it depends on which IS you are looking at.  ESF does not state explicitly that they prefer overseas passports, but from what I observed from a small population around me, overseas passports do help.

ChinPValerie

Any difference between apply with Caanda citizenship card and canada passpor?

jolalee

jk121299 發表於 14-8-12 22:33
Both parents are Hong Kong people with Australian passport and speak cantonese at home. When we appl ...

I'm not sure but i don't think the school will rate the child differently in accordance to their passport. The 30%/70% rule is enforced by the government for all International schools so that IS are actually taking mostly foreigners as IS originally is catered for. Having a local passport doesn't mean his level of English can be weaker then that of foreign passport holders (who can be Spanish or Arab or Japanese). Many IS has up to 90-100% foreign passport holders as well, so having 30% locals is just a max, not a requirement.

For Independent private schools it is the other way around, "at least 70 per cent of the student intake must be permanent residents of Hong Kong".  Therefore, for all IS you should apply with your kid's Auzzie passport (for a higher chance of admittance) and for private schools such as ISF & Victoria you should be waving your HKID.

Just wondering though, if you are aiming for IS and both parents are Auzzies, then why didn't one parent speak English to the child while the other one up hold Canto? It is the normal, healthy way of doing it so that the child can be more or less bilingual...

jolalee

ChinPValerie 發表於 14-8-20 17:31
Any difference between apply with Caanda citizenship card and canada passpor?

I thought schools look at the passport, not the citizenship card (although having one means having the other). Applying for school with a citizenship card? That sounds sort of strange. Are you in the process of obtaining the child's passport? If so, i guess the citizenship card will do for now as a stand in until you receive the child's passport and submit that in replacement. And, are you referring to CDNIS in particular? (since you mentioned about Canadian citizenship)

nintendo

ChinPValerie 發表於 14-8-20 17:31
Any difference between apply with Caanda citizenship card and canada passpor?

Both citizenship card and canada passport are proof of citizenship.


For the purpose of school application in Hong Kong , you need to provide copy of a passport and the passport number. A passport itself is already proof of nationality. So I do not think you need to provide citizenship card.

On the other hand, a citizenship card is mainly used in canada as a photo id. It is seldom recognised outside canada. A passport is always the best way to proof identity.
So if somehow your child does not have a passport yet, apply for one.

beekay

Numbers and percentages of local and non-local students
in ESF and private international schools (excluding special school)
(based on the student enrolment survey conducted in September 2012)


http://gia.info.gov.hk/general/201306/05/P201306050254_0254_112370.pdf

this may gives you some ideas.

ChinPValerie

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Understand and thank you.
As I need to apply Canadian Citizenship Card first before I can apply Canadian passport for my son. So it takes times...

lovecasey

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It takes a month to get the passport after getting the citizenship card