Elevated Risk for Chinese Travel
Jan 5, 2019, 10:56 pm
#16
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While inconvenient, there are ways around this which typically involve booking entirely separate tickets with a stopover in a 3rd country. If you renew your Chinese passport, do it outside of the US and China.
Jan 5, 2019, 11:03 pm
#17
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There are 3 main categories of dual PRC/US (or most other foreign countries) nationals:
Category 1: A 1996 interpretation of the Chinese nationality law decrees that a Chinese national of HK/Macau residency remains a Chinese national until he/she renounces it with their respective SAR government.
Category 2: A ROC national with Taiwan residency (even with foreign nationality) can acquire a Taibaozheng to travel to the Mainland and will be treated as a PRC national.
Category 3: A baby born abroad and acquire that country's nationality (e.g. US, Canada, but not Japan) of at least one parent not a resident abroad (e.g. tourist, student) remains a dual national until a certain age (when they are supposed to decide). This category is mostly still very young.
If you think I wrote something wrong in the 3 paragraphs above, then you don't understand the issue. The USDOS knows what they're doing when they say dual. It's mostly about Category 1, maybe 2.
Category 1: A 1996 interpretation of the Chinese nationality law decrees that a Chinese national of HK/Macau residency remains a Chinese national until he/she renounces it with their respective SAR government.
Category 2: A ROC national with Taiwan residency (even with foreign nationality) can acquire a Taibaozheng to travel to the Mainland and will be treated as a PRC national.
Category 3: A baby born abroad and acquire that country's nationality (e.g. US, Canada, but not Japan) of at least one parent not a resident abroad (e.g. tourist, student) remains a dual national until a certain age (when they are supposed to decide). This category is mostly still very young.
If you think I wrote something wrong in the 3 paragraphs above, then you don't understand the issue. The USDOS knows what they're doing when they say dual. It's mostly about Category 1, maybe 2.
Jan 5, 2019, 11:21 pm
#18
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This is just wishful thinking. Chinese embassy in a third country likely refuses to take the application. If an application is taken, the embassy will search a lot of database before the approval.
Chinese government collects a lot of data when you apply for visa and other travel documents. So, the sucesss rate of renewing a Chinese passport in a third country is likely low.
Chinese government collects a lot of data when you apply for visa and other travel documents. So, the sucesss rate of renewing a Chinese passport in a third country is likely low.
Jan 5, 2019, 11:39 pm
#19
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Then suffice to say that if you are travelling on an illegal Chinese Passport (acquired US passport and didn't give up Chinese) then you are at an elevated risk of travel to begin with because every time you enter, you are using an illegal document (old Chinese passport that you should have given up but not yet expired). For the rest of the nobodies like myself, I do not foresee any elevated risk for going to Shanghai for the week as a tourist.
Jan 6, 2019, 12:20 am
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