Thanks folks. I am finding out a lot about how the Chinese control the people. First they have to return to their home town just to apply for passport, which happens to be several thousand miles away. Second you need the family book, third you need ID from both parents to get a birth certificate which you also need. This makes getting a passport impossible for parents that don't want their daughter to marry a foreigner. If they refuse to release the family book to her to get passport, refuse to surrender their ID to get her birth certificate, etc. So an adult in China is trapped in the country by their parents if they don't want her to leave which is my case.