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Am I a dual national?

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  1. #1

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    Am I a dual national?

    I am a British Born Chinese with a British passport. I have a permanent HKID card through my parents.

    I don't have a HKSAR passport.

    This is a job for UK.

    So am I dual national? The question says 'have you ever held more than one nationality' and then the date held.

    Citizenship and nationality are two diff things.


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    you are not a chinese citizen if you dont have a chinese passport. you maybe eligible to become a chinese citizen.


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    Quote Originally Posted by westcat:
    I don't have a HKSAR passport.

    So am I dual national?
    NO you are NOT a dual national as you only hold a BRITISH PASSPORT.

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    Not a dual national. But you did have two British nationalities - British Citizen (ie UK British) and BDTC / BNO (ie HK British) nationalities. That's how you got your permanent HK ID card, by being a HK British national by descent.


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    It depends on your circumstances, perhaps you are a Chinese national ( see Chinese nationality law)
    however, if you fulfill the law's criteria you will have to prove it to HK immigration.


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    Quote Originally Posted by chuckster007:
    NO you are NOT a dual national as you only hold a BRITISH PASSPORT.
    This is BS. You don't need to hold a passport to have a nationality. See Boris' - he was a US national and citizen until he renounced his citizenship explicitly. China might very well consider OP a Chinese national.

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    This is for a job I understand. Not an application for a passport or a visa.

    Unless the job is to be a politician (in which case some countries can be extremely strict on nationality - see the fiasco in Australia for example) most "normal" jobs are looking for a "normal" answer - which is how many passports do you have or could reasonably have without any effort? Sounds like one to me.

    Last edited by HK_Katherine; 24-07-2018 at 02:02 PM.
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