Originally Posted by
brunos
That's interesting. A similar thing happened to me a few months ago and I was escorted to the immigration office. Could not use the arrival immigration gates (I am PR) and had to wait almost an hour to be "processed" by immigraiton.
this is normal procedure if you exited HK (as opposed to a transit), as they need to cancel your exit record.
for transit they only need to accept you (enter hk).
aligns with many other normal countries in my experience, even at irrops.