OK I really would appreciate help here, because I am just spinning in confusion.
I was born in Singapore, My Father is from the United Kingdom, and my mother from Hong Kong.
Therefore I gained British Citzenship and a British Passport after birth, as soon as I registered at the British Embassy in Singapore, 4 days after my birth.
For the first 7 years of my life, my mother followed my father worked as an expatriate, and we lived in Indonesia, and then moved to the United Kingdom and have lived there since.
During this period, my mother being aware that I would lose my entitlement to Permanent Residence in Hong Kong if I did not return a frequently, made sure I visited Hong Kong at least once every year in my life, until I was 18.
When I turned 18, I applied for my first Hong Kong ID card, and after 2 months of Red Tape, and sending photocopies of all my entries and exits to Hong Kong, I was granted a 3 * id card with permanent residence. (Hong Kong Permanent ID Card), because I also have a residence in Hong Kong (My Grandmas House).
After getting my Hong Kong ID card, I applied for a Home Return permit, at the time, a HKSAR Passport was not a requirement, and all you needed was a copy of your mothers Home return permit.
I have had my Home Return Permit now since 2004 and it expires in 2014.
Now here is my problem, I am a Chinese National via my Birth Right, But Also I am British, but because I wasn't born in the HKSAR the immigration department point blank refused my application for a HKSAR passport. On the grounds that I have British Citizenship and don't need the HKSAR Passport.
Being born in Singapore, and taking on British Citizenship 4 days after my Birth was my parents choice and not mine, therefore out of my control, and therefore I still have my chinese national status.
My mother who claimed British Citizenship via Marraige, never naturalised as a UK citizen, and she holds a HKSAR passport and a British Passport.
If i don't get his HKSAR Passport by the time 2014 comes along, then with the new requirement of a HKSAR passport to get a home return permit, i don't know how I will renew it!
I don't think that the immigration department in Hong Kong has advised me correctly.
So please any advice would help!