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Three Filipinas have found themselves answering criminal charges filed by the Immigration Department at Shatin Court, accusing them of providing tennis coaching services while limited by their visa condition to work solely as domestic helpers at their employers’ homes.
The three – Ammar Mendoza, 62 years old; Aurorita Amba, aged
45; and Dolly Gay Manaligod, 31 --appeared Thursday (Aug. 30) before Acting
Principal Magistrate Cheang Kei-hong, charged with breach of condition of stay,
a violation of the Immigration Ordinance.
Mendoza was accused of working illegally between Oct. 1,
2023 and July 16 this year, having joined a business providing tennis coaching
services without the authority of the Immigration director.
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She was also slapped with an additional charge of lying to an
Immigration officer for saying that she would work and live in her employer’s
residence.
Her case was adjourned to Nov. 7.
She was freed on cash bail of $1,000.
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Amba, on the other hand was accused of working illegally between
Oct. 1, 2023 and July 16 this year. Her case was adjourned to Nov. 7; she was
freed on bail of $500.
Manaligod faced a similar charge -- working illegally from
October 2023 and May 2024. Her case was also adjourned to Nov. 7; she was freed
on bail of $500.
Under Immigration laws, FDHs cannot take up work, whether paid or unpaid, apart from the domestic work they are supposed to perform at the contractual address of their employers.
It was not clear if the three cases are connected to the arrest last July 13 of three persons during a joint operation conducted by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the police and Immigration Department at the tennis courts in Wong Nai Chung Road in Wanchai and Victoria Park.
A female FDH was reported to be among those arrested for selling tennis court booking permits; she
was also suspected of breaching her condition of stay by allegedly transferring permits
for the tennis court she booked in exchange for rewards.
Also among those arrested was someone suspected of using and
possessing another person’s Hong Kong identity card without reasonable excuse,
which also violated Immigration laws.
LCSD said further arrests cannot be ruled out as a result of
these cases.
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