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Friday, April 24, 2009

Our daughter - the to-be illegal immigrant???

Received a call from the agent helping with my long-term visa in China - he is also doing the visa for Rosabelle, to be dependant on my visa. Turns out the Chinese government has a new ruling that takes effect from this month - any child born to a Chinese national is automatically considered a Chinese citizen, regardless of whether the other parent is of another nationality, or whether the child has registered his/her birth or citizenship elsewhere.

Effectively, this means that Rosabelle is recognized as a 'tiong kok kia' (中国人) and does not need a visa to stay on in China, but it also means that she needs to perhaps go to Zhengzhou to get a hukou, and then get a Chinese passport! But as neither China nor Singapore recognizes dual citizenship, this is in effect wrong, and I then have to delist her Chinese nationality. It's ultra complicated, and I have left it in the good hands of Wayne to deal with it, but it just puzzles me as to why the Chinese government wants to claim more citizens - don't they have enough 中国人 to call their own already? It's either for the sake of job creation (to set up a department and resources to delist such foreigners), or I'm sure the delisting fees don't come cheap. Oh well, since we stay here, let's just support the local economy *roll eyes*.

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