Applying for RTL - What do I need?

suzic · 24-01-2010, 06:08 AM

Thought I just write in here rather than making a new topic, I hold ROA at the moment but have not been back since 2006. Will I automatically get RTL or do I need to take any documents with me when I go in March.

Thanks

Hairball · 24-01-2010, 06:33 AM

If you are a Chinese citizen you do not lose ROA regardless from absence from HK.

If you are not, then you will have RTL, I think it's automatic.

suzic · 25-01-2010, 03:02 AM

Thanks for the reply, not actually sure what status I have in Hong Kong I do have 3* but that could just mean I'm over 18 so I guess I find out when I go in March

celloboy · 25-01-2010, 06:39 AM

i have 3*permanent ID card with ROA, hadn't been back for over 10 years, renewed it months ago no problem, still have ROA but I was born in HK so that might have been an important factor

Hairball · 26-01-2010, 07:45 AM

Yes if you were a Chinese citizen, born in HK and have ***, it should be fine. You won't lose ROA regardless of absence unless you make a declaration of change of nationality.

As for suzic, it depends if you are a Chinese citizen, it appears a lot of foreign born HKers were issued *** in error in the past.

imparanoic · 26-01-2010, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by Hairball:

Yes if you were a Chinese citizen, born in HK and have ***, it should be fine. You won't lose ROA regardless of absence unless you make a declaration of change of nationality.

As for suzic, it depends if you are a Chinese citizen, it appears a lot of foreign born HKers were issued *** in error in the past.

are you sure, only in april 09, my younger brother exchanged his old ROA juvenile id card for a ful ROA *** id card, he was born in UK, has not been in HK for 8 years, but born before 97.

how can be sure if they have been given non chinese citizen & non hk born people by mistake, would the difference be indigenous HK people (原居民) enables that their offspring will still have *** ROA status even though they have not revisited HK after 3 years or was never born in HK.

Hairball · 26-01-2010, 11:38 AM

As in if the person is a Chinese citizen according to the PRC nationality law. One can be a Chinese citizen born abroad if they meet the requirements.

Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It just appears from what a lot of people have posted here, that many have had *** given to them incorrectly.

imparanoic · 26-01-2010, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Hairball:

As in if the person is a Chinese citizen according to the PRC nationality law. One can be a Chinese citizen born abroad if they meet the requirements.

Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It just appears from what a lot of people have posted here, that many have had *** given to them incorrectly.

will *** be given out incorrectly for the forseeable future then, as they have obvious not changed this "benefit" for oversea born digineous hk chinese.

Hairball · 26-01-2010, 12:14 PM

I don't understand your question.

But my take is that they apply these nationality rules more correctly now that it's nearly 13 years since the handover.

I was just alluding to the fact that a lot of people claimed on this forum they had *** and subsequently lost it because the HK Immigration Department found out they shouldn't have been a Chinese citizen.

imparanoic · 26-01-2010, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Hairball:

I don't understand your question.

But my take is that they apply these nationality rules more correctly now that it's nearly 13 years since the handover.

I was just alluding to the fact that a lot of people claimed on this forum they had *** and subsequently lost it because the HK Immigration Department found out they shouldn't have been a Chinese citizen.

I have photographic proof if you want to see it, please pm me.