Portfolio maintenance and ring-fencing requirements will be imposed to ensure that the entrant does not reduce his investment commitment while he is permitted to stay in Hong Kong under the Scheme. The entrant is required to transact only in the Specified financial assets in designated account opened with a single financial intermediary. Details of the requirements are set out in the Rules for the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (the Scheme Rules). An entrant is required to undertake in the application form to the effect that he agrees to abide by the Scheme Rules whilst remaining in Hong Kong as an entrant under the Scheme (the Undertaking). .

Entrants may be allowed to bring in their dependants (i.e. spouse and unmarried dependent children under 18 years of age) provided that the entrant is capable of supporting and accommodating his dependants on his own without relying on any return on the permissible investment assets, employment or public assistance in Hong Kong. The entry of dependants will however be subject to any other policy applicable to such entry at the time of application.

A successful entrant, and his dependant(s) if any, will be issued with a visa / entry permit to be collected from the Immigration Department by himself or through his local reference in Hong Kong for onward transmission to him. The visa label should be affixed onto a blank visa page of the entrant's travel document for presentation to the immigration officer upon arrival in Hong Kong. If the entrant has no proper travel document acceptable for traveling to Hong Kong, an entry permit will be issued instead. The same entry arrangements will apply to the entrant's dependants.

As set out in paragraph 2.1(b) of the Rules for the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme ["the Scheme Rules"], an Applicant has to meet the eligibility criteria, among others, that he has Net assets or Net equity to which he is absolutely beneficially entitled with a Market value of not less than HK$10 million. Net throughout the two years preceding the date he lodged his application for Approval-in-Principle or Formal Approval.

To streamline the procedure and to shorten the processing time, with effect from 16 March 2009, applicants under the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme [CIES] may at their own cost engage a Certified Public Accountant (Practising) [CPA (Practising)] who is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants to issue a report to demonstrate that they meet the requirement of paragraph 2.1(b) of the Scheme Rules.

The report may be submitted to the Immigration Department together with the CIES application form. This is an optional arrangement and whether or not a CPA (Practising) is engaged will not affect the outcome of the application. The new arrangement is also applicable to applications submitted before the implementation date.