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Immigration, Residency & Citizenship Services

We provide immigration consulting services across the entire range of employment activities in the Hong Kong, Singapore and Mauritius. Our service draws upon our specific expertise in, and knowledge of, the business environment within these regions.

We assist with document gathering (individual and corporate) and pre-processing, obtaining translations as appropriate, legalisations, and similar authentications as, when and where required. We then co-ordinate the processing of these visas and applications, drawing on our in-house professional skills and global network.

  • Employment and other visa applications
  • Change of status applications (for example, from Visitor Visa to Employment Visa)
  • Investment Visa applications
  • Visas for dependents, defacto spouses and children (as appropriate)
  • China Employment and Business Investment Visas (together with accompanying family members)
  • Singapore Employment Passes and Dependent Passes (including collections, renewals and cancellations as needed)

For further information, please contact the relevant office:

Hong Kong

OCRA (Hong Kong) Limited
12/F, Henley Building
5 Queen’s Road Central
Central
Hong Kong
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11:33 am
+852 2522 4720
Bart Dekker
English, Dutch, Mandarin, Cantonese
Singapore

OCRA (Singapore) Pte Limited

16 Raffles Quay
#16-02 Hong Leong Building
Singapore
048581

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11:33 am
+65 6535 3991
Simonne Toh
English
Mauritius

OCRA (Mauritius) Limited
2nd Floor, MaxCity Building
Remy Ollier Street
Port Louis
Republic of Mauritius
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07:33 am
+230 217 5400
Dharmesh Naik
English, French, Hindi, Gujarati, Creole

OCRA Worldwide announces strategic merger with Acclime

17th November 2022, Hong Kong - OCRA Worldwide (OCRA), announces today that it has completed the strategic merger with Asia Pacific’s premier corporate services provider Acclime (www.acclime.com). This is the latest step in Acclime’s active expansion as the Asia specialist in compliance and corporate services throughout the region.

Established in 1975 and led by Bart Dekker and Dharmesh Naik, OCRA is one of the industry pioneers in the corporate services sector with a full suite of corporate services from company formation, company secretarial support, accounting, and HR services. Over the past 40 years, OCRA has become a truly global business by providing very personalised services to their clients, most of whom are private investors or companies investing abroad.

From its founding base in Europe, OCRA has morphed over the past decade to focus on the faster growing markets of Asia and the Indian Ocean, and currently has teams in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Mauritius and the Seychelles with around 80 staff. Additionally, OCRA is licensed in Samoa and the UAE to provide incorporation services to clients and referral partners.

"The high quality of the team, the interesting gateway jurisdictions of Mauritius and UAE which are important investment hubs for Africa and India, and the synergy of offering OCRA clients more services and Asian locations for expanding their business were the strategic logic for Acclime's interest in acquiring OCRA," said Martin Crawford, CEO and Co-Founder of Acclime. "We look forward to introducing OCRA’s corporate clients to our regional experts in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam," he added.

The sale of the business was managed by the corporate advisory team of Mazars in London (Paul Joyce & Fred Dearden), acting for the ultimate shareholder of OCRA, and was opened for bids. "Acclime was chosen as the preferred bidder as the team recognised the cultural similarities, with high quality, personalised services at the core," said Bart Dekker, OCRA’s Managing Director, Asia Pacific. Dharmesh Naik, OCRA's Managing Director, Middle East and Indian Ocean, added, "We are excited and delighted to become an integral part of a large international team with the established resources across Acclime's network, and to execute the transaction in line with OCRA's long term succession plan in the interest of all of our stakeholders."

OCRA will operate as an independent business unit within Acclime, supported by funding, IT and marketing initiatives that will grow the business further. Bart Dekker and Dharmesh Naik will remain running the business post-acquisition.

The transaction is subjected to regulatory approvals in several locations and Acclime is expected to complete the acquisition by the end of 2022.

About OCRA
Established in 1975, OCRA is one of the industry pioneers in the corporate services sector with a full suite of corporate services from company formation, company secretarial support, accounting and HR services. For over 40 years, OCRA has been providing personalised services to its clients, most of whom are private investors or companies investing abroad.

About Acclime
Acclime, the premier corporate services provider in Asia, helps corporate and private clients to advance their businesses and interests in difficult-to-navigate markets in emerging Asia. The company’s vision is to reinvent the corporate services sector with innovative solutions that are seamlessly delivered to the highest global standards.

Enquiries: enquiries@ocra.com