Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
- Joined: Mar 27th, 2008
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Been searching the internet for a few hours and haven't come up with anything good so I figured I would ask here. We have a one week newborn, I am american and the wife is Chinese. She had heard that we have one month to change the babies citizenship otherwise we would be fined. Does anyone know about the time-lines or requirements on the chinese side for changing our babies nationality? Any amount of information or links to information would be greatly appreciated.
p.s. Yes the baby has her birth certificate, have not done anymore than that, and the baby will have an american citizenship.
zhenlai
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
Do you want the child to be Chinese or American?
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ilovebananas
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
We are hoping to make her an American Citizen.
zhenlai
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
You do not need to hope. She is an American citizen since you are her father. If you have any guanxi you can also have her added to your wife's hukou.
Just take her to the consulate or the embassy and register her birth. Once that has been processed you will be issued a passport with which you need to go to the appropriate Chinese office and apply for a visa.
Take as much documentation with you that you can that you are an American citizen. The process is not difficult and I cannot tell you how much time it takes but that is what you need to do.
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ilovebananas
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I wish there was a shake your head in disappointment emote I could use right now. Either you did not read my post or I was really not clear.
I was asking, as I am making her an American citizen is there any requirements on the CHINESE SIDE, mostly I am looking for things that need to be done within a certain time.
zhenlai
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
Once you get her passport you need to go to PSB and get a visiting relative visa for her. I don't know about any time specific period. If you have her American passport I would do it immediately.
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maggielee66
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
hi,
It is natural that your baby have 2 nationalities, Chinese and American. There is no requirement that you should change her citizenship in 1 month.
Next time when you plan to take her to leave China, you can apply for an "Exit Card" for her at the police station that your wife's Hukou registered.
In future, if you only want her to keep American nationality, you can take her to leave China and do not enter China for at least 2 years. Then your baby's Chinese nationality is automatically given up.
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little.boo
Re: Newborn Child - Few Citizenship Q's
Maggie, as far as I know, China does´t accept dual nationality.
If the baby is American... can´t be Chinese.
ilovebananas
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Maggie and little boo I find that you both are right. After having my wife do research on the PSB website the baby can have the dual citizenship until she leaves China, once we want want to leave we go to the place that issues visa and apply for an exit card and then once she leaves she will have given up her Chinese citizenship.
This makes it a little easier on us as my wife is doing her Yuezi and it is winter and we have some more time before we have to begin apply for passports and whatnot.
I will reply to this thread if I have any more information or encounter any road blocks. Thank you all for your answers.
gdbill
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You can obtain a US passport for the child at any time and that in no way effects using the child's birth certificate to obtain hukou for the child. The issue arises when you want to take the child abroad.
If you plan on traveling to the USA, the child must exit China and enter the USA on their US passport. As previously mentioned, you will need to apply for an exit permit which basically nullifies their Chinese citizenship when they exit China. To re-enter China they will need a visa just like any other US citizen.
If you plan on traveling to a country other than the US and you wish to preserve the child's Chinese citizenship along with, obviously, their US citizenship, you can simply use their Chinese passport to obtain a visa for the destination country.
There is even a way to travel to the US without giving up their Chinese citizenship, but it is slightly more complicated and involves, usually, add extra expense.
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weagesdf
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dont bring your baby to guangzhou. they eat babies there.
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