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Thread: US or PRC Citizenship for baby?
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[quote=ENTRIPRENEUR,342923] The baby will be a US citizen when born due to you are the father. Now this is very important, when receiving the birth certificate have the hospital add the english name one the it. They may have to hand write it in and tell you they cannot do it, but they can. (I am sure you know the drill). The is no hurry to do the next steps if you are planning on staying in china for some time. Since the baby was born in China with a chinese national, it is regarding as a chinese citizen. Her is where it gets tricky depending on your aim. The Chinese do not recognise dual citizenship but the US does. I think the ideal position is for child is to have the Chinese Hokou (spelling?) and be in china as a US citizen. So in theory the baby would have all benifits of a chinese national and still be protected by us law. It could have the best of both worlds. It is much easier said then done as well as it my take some luck. So perhaps these are the steps you may want to take. Use the attached form on the birth certificate for a chinese passport and Hokou. Then apply for the US passport and request a performa visa for the baby's chinese passport so it can leave the country. When in the US, get a chinese visa for the US passport and reenter China with the US passport and add a chinese resident's permit to the US passport. Please let me know if you have any questions and how your experience was at the birth. :)[/quote]
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