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Asked by Laura from lithuania | Apr. 01, 2015 16:13

About:Dual Nationality

Can my child get a foreign passport in my country's embassy and live in China as a Chinese citizen?

Hi,
I am a European woman married to a Chinese citizen, soon we a moving to China to live and plan to have a baby in there. does my child need to get a permanent visa, if he/she gets European passport?

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Answered by Kevin | Apr. 02, 2015 04:16

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Laura, China doesn't acknowledge dual citizenship. Once your kid acquire foreign citizenship, he won't be able to get Chinese citizenship again. In this case, he/she should apply for Q1 type to stay for long in PRC. Theoretically, he/she apply for permanent resident card. But in fact it is very difficult to acquire this. You know, just around 200 peple acquire permanent resident permits every year.

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Answered by Simon | Jun. 11, 2015 07:46

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Hi Laura, This article is a bit misleading, certainly as stated Article No 3 and 9 of the Nationality Laws are correct and apply to pure Chinese Citizens. However, Artice No 4 also states :-

"If they were born in China, to one Chinese-national parent, they are a Chinese national at birth (Article 4). If their other parent is a non-Chinese-national, they may acquire another nationality at birth by jus sanguinis from that parent"

My daughter is 13 and has held both a Chinese & UK passport all her life, she lives in China as a Chinese Citizen and outside travels as a UK citizen. However it does pose some problems on exiting China as the Chinese refuse to accept her UK passport as a travel document, we tend to always travel though HK though and they allow her to enter on her UK passport before we fly. Travel regulations for dual nationals have become much stricter internationally in the last 15 years.

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Answered by Peter | Jun. 15, 2015 20:35

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Hi Laura,
Simon from China is right. China allows dual nationality for people born to Chinese - Foreign parents, even though it is not explicitly written in Nationality Law. I am married with Chinese, our daughter was born in mainland and got Chinese nationality(Article 4). From my side she has my (Slovakian) nationality. Another example is my Dutch colleague with daughter holding Dutch and Chinese nationality.

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