Normal process of hiring a FDH
1
Select a helper + online interview (free translation available)
About 1-2 weeks
2
Sign the contract + pay
About 1 week
3
Consulate notarization contract
About 1-2 weeks
4
Visa approval by Immigration Department
About 4-6 weeks
5
Collect visa
About 1 week
6
Arrange arrival at airport
Philippines 2-3 weeks / India 4-6 weeks
7
Arrange a body check for helper
Within 1-2 days after the arrival at the airport
8
Bring the helper to your home
Required documents
When hiring a helper, you can first provide your ID card when signing the contract, and our colleagues will check the remaining documents with you afterwards.
- Income Proof*
- Copy of employer's ID card (if not a permanent resident, passport and visa sticker are required)
- List of family members and foreign domestic workers living together
- Copy of proof of address (past 2 months) (eg. gov rates, water, electricity, gas, landline telephone or cable TV bills, etc.)
- If you are a public housing tenant, you need to provide the public housing lease and the temporary residence permit for your foreign domestic helper.
- If you are a tenant of a public housing unit, you must provide the latest rates bill.
*Please consult our colleagues
Qualifications for hiring a foreign domestic helper (FDH)
All the conditions mentioned here must be met before hiring
- Sufficient financial resources to employ a foreign domestic worker. For each FDH employed, the employer's household income must be no less than HK$15,000 per month, or the employer must have assets of a similar amount.
- FDHs and their employers must sign a specified standard employment contract (ID407)
- FDHs can only perform household chores as specified in the standard employment contract
- FDHs are not allowed to engage in employment work for others during their stay in Hong Kong
- Employers must commit to paying their domestic helpers a salary no less than HK$$5,100 per month, as stipulated by the Hong Kong government in 2025. If meals are not provided to the domestic helper, the agreed-upon meal allowance shall not be less than HK$$1,236 per month.
- FDHs must work and reside at the employer's residence as specified in the standard employment contract
- Employers must provide suitable accommodation with reasonable privacy for their helpers
- There is no doubt about the true purpose of the employment relationship between employers and their helpers
- The employer and the helper have no known bad records
- The employer must be a genuine Hong Kong resident