Lai Tung-kwok

Lai Tung-kwok, IDSM (traditional Chinese: 黎棟國) (born 1952 in Hong Kong with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong) is the Under Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since 2009 and was the Director of Immigration from 2002 to 2008. Mr. Lai joined the British Hong Kong Government as an Assistant Immigration Officer in 1973. He was promoted to Immigration Officer in 1980, to Senior Immigration Officer in 1986, to Chief Immigration Officer in 1990, to Assistant Principal Immigration Officer in 1992, to Principal Immigration Officer in 1995, to Senior Principal Immigration Officer in 1997 and to Assistant Director of Immigration in 1999. He was promoted to Deputy Director of Immigration in 2001. Lai was appointed...