Upon successful application for a student visa, you will be issued a self-adhesive student visa label. You are required to activate the student visa label by entrance to Hong Kong on or before the date stated on the student visa label.

If you are from the Mainland, you must apply for an "Exit-entry Permit for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macao" (EEP) and a relevant exit endorsement from the Public Security Bureau office where your household registration is kept.  The visa label should be affixed onto a blank endorsement page of the EEP for arrival clearance upon your entry to Hong Kong.  In case your EEP bearing the relevant exit endorsement is in electronic format, you should present the electronic EEP together with the visa label for immigration arrival clearance.

If you are from overseas or Macao, you must affix the visa label onto your passport or "Visit Permit for Residents of Macao to HKSAR" (for Macao students) and enter Hong Kong on the strength of the documents.

If you are a full-time student from Taiwan, you will be issued a single-journey entry permit.  You must present it at the Immigration Counter and enter Hong Kong on the strength of the entry permit.  If you are a part-time student from Taiwan, you will be issued a multiple-journey visa label.  You must affix the visa label onto your Declaration of Identity for Visa Purposes (a copy of which should have been furnished to the Immigration Department upon your visa application).

You should present your student visa label (affixed on relevant travel documents) or entry permit (for full-time students from Taiwan) at the Immigration Counter when you arrive in Hong Kong.  Please ensure that the Immigration Officer puts an immigration stamp on your passport/travel document or issues a landing slip to you stating "Student - Permitted to remain until (a student status due date in a format of DD-MM-YYYY)".