Visa for former chinese citizen descents
Hello,
I'm a French national who lives in Singapore and I went today to the Visa Center to apply for a Q2 visa.
[I actually wanted to apply for the 5-year multi entries as I have Chinese origins, but they said they do not provide for such visa here]
I brought along my passport, work pass, visa form, letter of invite + ID of my grandmother, family register translated [to prove that my grandmother actually is my grandmother].
They asked me if i have had previous Chinese visa which may not be in my current passport, I answered positively, which they wanted to get a proof for. I explained that when we (french nationals) apply for passport renewal, we need to give back the previous one in order to apply for the one.
Then, since I would never be able to provide any former visas, the person at the counter replied that they would then need a proof that either by the time I was born, both my parents were already french, and if not, that both my parents already surrendered their Chinese nationality since then.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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