HKSAR passport

[Ryu_000]

ok, just want to clarify something,
I'm born in HK, have ROA in HK, but hold a philippine passport, should I change my citizenship first before applying for a HKSAR passport? I'm all confused with all that stuff I've read in the immmigration dept. website, someone please help.

Thanks in advance

[PDLM]

You can only get a HKSAR passport if you are a Chinese citizen. THis would require you to renounce (Or at least to declare that you had renounced ) your Philippine citizenship and to be accepted for Chinese citizenship. Beyond that I'm afraid I don't know... if you are etnically Chinese it may help - China is one of the few countries that retains a race-based qualification route to citizenship.

[Roger]

The Chinese Nationality Law does not mention race as a grounds for citizenship qualification. The qualifications for automatic citizenship are: 1. Birth in China to parents of whom either one or both is a Chinese citizen. 2. Birth outside China to a Chinese citizen parent, as long as the parent has not acquired permanent residency status in that country AND the child has not acquired a foreign nationality at birth. 3. A child born in China whose parents are stateless or of uncertain nationality and have settled in China.
Anyone may naturalise as long as they fulfil legal requirements. These are: being a relative of Chinese citizens, settling in China, other legitimate reasons. Plus the foreign nationality must be renounced.

[Zankin]

Wow, don't you love the complexity of Chinese law that apply in HK. You are a chinese national if you fulfill those conditions even though you hold a foreign passport? but if on the other hand, you were born overseas you aren't. Doesn't that conflict with their no dual nationality law? So they made a small exception in HK, like they did for macau.