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The Student Finance Office (SFO) encourages applicants to register and use “iAM Smart+” to digitally sign the Declaration of “Electronic Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (E-Form). Applicants will not need to print, sign and submit separately the signed Declaration. For more details on the registration of ”iAM Smart+”, please visit the “iAM Smart” website.
(i.e. applicants who have successfully applied for financial assistance for pre-primary students in the 2022/23 school year on or before 1 May 2023)
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Applicants (i) with child(ren) attending Primary 1 in the 2023/24 school year; or (ii) who have successfully applied for financial assistance for primary and secondary students in the 2022/23 school year, please refer to the Application Processing Timetable applicable for “primary and secondary students” of continuing applicants.
Starting from around end May 2023, the SFO will issue Access Code and/ or paper-based pre-filled “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (Paper-based Pre-filled Form) to continuing applicants in batches according to their option indicated in the 2022/23 application. Continuing applicants may –
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E-submission
Access the “Pre-filled E-Form” tab in the “SFO E-link – My Applications (Financial Assistance Schemes at Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary Levels)” website, and use “iAM Smart” or enter the Access Code and required information to open the E-Form which has been prefilled with their application details (Pre-filled E-Form). Continuing applicants may then complete the Pre-filled E-Form, upload relevant supporting documents and submit the application online; or
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Complete and submit the Paper-based Pre-filled Form issued by the SFO, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, by post with the return envelope provided by the SFO.
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| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| SFO 107B(1) | Guidance Notes | Paper-based Application | |
| SFO 107B(2)/ SFO 107B(E) | Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form (including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown) | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
(including new applicants, and those who have NOT received financial assistance for pre-primary students in the 2022/23 school year on or before 1 May 2023)
Other applicants may –
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E-submission
Access the “E-Form” tab in the “SFO E-link – My Applications (Financial Assistance Schemes at Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary Levels)" website to complete and submit E-Form direct; or
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Complete and submit the paper-based Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, to Tsimshatsui PO Box 96824 by post.
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| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| SFO 7B∧ | Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes | Paper-based Application | - |
| SFO 75B(1)∧ | Guidance Notes | Paper-based Application | |
| SFO 75B(2)∧/ SFO 75B(E) | Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form (including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown) | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
| SFO 288E∧ | School Certificate (should be submitted to schools in paper format for processing) | Paper-based Application | |
| SFO 293E∧ | Notes on How to Complete and Return “School Certificate” (SC) | Paper-based Application | |
| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| SFO 235A# | “Social Needs” Assessment Form for Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Fee Remission (only applicable to whole-day fee remission application from children aged between 0 and 3 attending child care centre or kindergarten-cum-child care centre) | Paper-based Application | - |
| SFO 108 | Cover Sheet for Supporting Documents | Paper-based Application | - |
| SFO 182 | Cover Sheet for Addressed envelope for submission of application | Paper-based Application | - |
| - | Notification of Change of Correspondence / Residential Address | Paper-based Application | |
| - | Form of Supplementary Information | Paper-based Application | |
| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| ☆ | English Leaflet | Paper-based Application | |
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Leaflet and “Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form” in languages of different races +Show more
Documents obtainable from the Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of District Offices, schools, Regional Education Offices of the Education Bureau and the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office).
Documents obtainable from the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office).
Documents obtainable from the Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of District Offices, schools, Regional Education Offices of the Education Bureau, the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office), District Social Welfare Offices of the Social Welfare Department and Support Service Centres for Ethnic Minorities.