{"id":5135,"date":"2012-06-29T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2019-07-06T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:18:14","slug":"filipino-maid-takes-fight-for-permanent-residency-to-hong-kongs-top-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"Filipino maid takes fight for permanent residency to Hong Kong&#8217;s top court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5137\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/patnubay.org\/dokumento\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hongkong.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5137\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5137\" title=\"Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/patnubay.org\/dokumento\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hongkong-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/dokumento\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hongkong-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patnubay.org\/dokumento\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hongkong.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Kong: foreign residents other than domestic workers can apply for permanent residency after seven years. Photograph: Jerome Favre\/EPA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evangeline Banao Vallejos wins right to appeal against ruling upholding denial of residency to foreign domestic workers<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press in Hong Kong\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jun\/22\/filipino-maid-hong-kong-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Filipino domestic worker has won permission to take her fight for permanent residency in Hong Kong to its top court,<!--more--> hoping for a landmark ruling that would let thousands of other foreign maids settle in the southern Chinese financial centre.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer Mark Daly said a three-member panel of high court judges had allowed his client, Evangeline Banao Vallejos, to appeal against their decision in March upholding Hong Kong&#8217;s denial of permanent residency for foreign domestic workers. Other foreign residents can apply to settle permanently after seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The judges said the court of final appeal would have to decide whether immigration law was inconsistent with Hong Kong&#8217;s mini-constitution, the Basic Law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re quite happy,&#8221; said Daly. &#8220;The show goes on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vallejos, who has worked as a maid in Hong Kong since 1986, launched the case after her bid for permanent residency was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, in a ruling that surprised many, a lower court decided in her favour. But the high court judges overturned that decision.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 300,000 foreign maids, mainly from south-east Asian countries, work for Hong Kong families. By the end of 2010, 117,000 had been resident for seven years or more.<\/p>\n<p>The case has split the city. Some argue that barring maids from settling permanently amounts to ethnic discrimination. Others fear letting them stay would result in a massive influx of their relatives, straining the city&#8217;s social services and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is a special administrative region of\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/china\">China<\/a>. Permanent residency is the closest thing it has to citizenship and allows those who have it to vote and work without a visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangeline Banao Vallejos wins right to appeal against ruling upholding denial of residency to foreign domestic workers Associated Press in Hong Kong\u00a0guardian.co.uk A Filipino domestic worker has won permission to take her fight for permanent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,35,37],"tags":[165,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12617,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/12617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}