Passenger flows across Hong Kong’s land, sea and air checkpoints surged on 3 April, the first day of the five-day Easter–Ching Ming holiday stretch, with the Immigration Department logging more than 1.1 million inbound and outbound movements by 9 p.m. Most travellers opted for land routes into Shenzhen: Lo Wu alone handled about 240,000 trips, while Lok Ma Chau Spur-line and Shenzhen Bay each exceeded 180,000. Officials kept extra counters open and activated a joint command centre with Police, Customs and MTR Corp to manage queues in real time. For companies running cross-border shuttle services or flying staff through Hong Kong, the figures are an early stress-test of post-pandemic capacity.
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Before employees even reach the border, obtaining the correct permits remains critical. Corporate mobility teams can outsource that administrative load to VisaHQ, whose Hong Kong portal (https://www.visahq.com/hong-kong/) handles China visas, home-country renewals and multi-entry applications online with courier pickup and status alerts, shaving days off processing and preventing last-minute scrambles.
The 1.1 million crossings represent almost double the Good Friday 2025 tally and validate government forecasts of 6.44 million trips between 3–7 April. Corporate mobility managers should warn travellers that peak outbound pressure is expected again on Sunday afternoon, while return bottlenecks will concentrate on Tuesday evening. Pre-registering for e-Channel biometric clearance can cut average wait times from 40 to 10 minutes at Lo Wu. Travel insurers are also highlighting the importance of “delay” riders: once queues exceed two hours, claims for missed onward connections become the single biggest holiday-week payout, based on 2025 data from the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers.
Before employees even reach the border, obtaining the correct permits remains critical. Corporate mobility teams can outsource that administrative load to VisaHQ, whose Hong Kong portal (https://www.visahq.com/hong-kong/) handles China visas, home-country renewals and multi-entry applications online with courier pickup and status alerts, shaving days off processing and preventing last-minute scrambles.
The 1.1 million crossings represent almost double the Good Friday 2025 tally and validate government forecasts of 6.44 million trips between 3–7 April. Corporate mobility managers should warn travellers that peak outbound pressure is expected again on Sunday afternoon, while return bottlenecks will concentrate on Tuesday evening. Pre-registering for e-Channel biometric clearance can cut average wait times from 40 to 10 minutes at Lo Wu. Travel insurers are also highlighting the importance of “delay” riders: once queues exceed two hours, claims for missed onward connections become the single biggest holiday-week payout, based on 2025 data from the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers.
