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My wife's son, Bingning, arrived in US on Sept. 18. He is an IR2 visa. I hear he can get US citizenship using his mom's status. She is USC since Jan 2009. No test. Is this true. How do we go about getting this done?
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For the purposes of making sure people get all the documentation they need in China before leaving, is there any Chinese documentation needed for the N-400? I suppose you need: "White book" (notarized copy of "red book" marriage license), just as used for the green card process - is that right, actually? Anything else? Anything needed for anything else besides the literal N-400 would also be worth thinking about. (I've read the document checklist, but just unsure about exact requirements.)
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question. My wife, naturalized USC, is going back to China for the first time in September. She will be getting a visa in her US Passport. The consulate makes her include her Chinese Passport with the application. She is worried they will cancel her China ID. Her thinking is never know when it could be useful in China. What is everyone's experience here, is this possible. Does China cancel ID if they know the person is now a USC?
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My wife Li is ready to get her citizenship. We will be traveling working trade shows, so can we get the interview changed to a closer location when the time comes for the interview?
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My wife is going to apply for her U.S. passport and aside from being terrified of the geniuses in the paperwork process loosing her original naturalization certificate, I had another thought pop in my head. To apply for her visa to visit China, she has to turn her old passport in to the Chinese embassy if I understand correctly, something to do with renouncing her Chinese citizenship. What would happen if she should for some reason ever decide to leave the U.S. and move back to China permanently? As far as I know, this would never happen, but I just wonder about these things.
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Our daughter just got her US passport (she's been considered a Chinese citizen since birth, since she was born in China), and now we have to decide how to proceed. I know that legally she can't keep both because the Chinese don't allow this. However, she lives in China and she goes to school in China, so giving it up would be a headache. I know that many people keep both passports secretly, but I've been searching on how to do this. I know that it involves a trip to a third country when traveling between the US and China, but I don't understand the logistics. For example, if I cross the border by land from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, how does this work? Does she need permission to travel to Hong Kong in her Chinese passport? Will it look strange because her US passport has absolutely nothing in it? Another question... If we book flights to the US from the mainland, do we actually have to go through customs in the middle country to make this work? For example, can we fly from Beijing to Tokyo and then to the US without going through Japanese customs or do we have to go through customs to make this work. If anyone has any experience with this, I would appreciate the help. I've tried searching the forum, but I can't find specifics. Thanks, Socks -
My wife and I are thinking of starting a business (private school) back in china in the coming year to 18 months. She is eligible for US Citizenship, but we pondering whether or not to do it. questions are: 1. are there any easy ways for her to get a Chinese visa as an "overseas chinese"? 2. Differing taxes while within China? Anyone gone along a similar path? -
What if the father adopted the daughter, does he need to file an N-600? What if the wife is not naturalized yet? Carl
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its not uncommon for the chinese embassy to require proof that the chinese has not gotten citizenship when renewing prc passport
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If I bring my fiancee to the US on a fiancee visa and end up marrying her and she becomes a US citizenship will she lose her Chinese citizenship? Or can she have dual or what? If she does lose it what are the implied ramifications that I should think of? Probably in light of the fact that we plan to later move back to China. -
I understand the advantages of my wife becoming a US Citizen here. I note that several posters have written that their spouses have elected to remain permanent residents rather than apply for US Citizenship. As I understand it an adult can be a citizen of US or a citizen of China bot not a citizen of both? Is this correct? What are the disadvantages to a Chinese spouse in becoming a US citizen? What specifically do they lose when they are no longer Chinese citizens? If your spouse is also a Shanghai or Beijing citizen is there another loss of rights and privledges?
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Hello, I don't know if this has been discussed or not - I have not read through these topics - So I appologize if I am asking something that has already been answered. I have heard that some countries allow "dual citizenship"... Is China one of the countries that DO or DO NOT allow dual citizenship? This is of course in relation to a US citizen. Thanks, fortunecookie
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Hi All I have several questions that maybe some can answer. My wife is considering becoming a citizen. I think that the reason is so that she can get her parents over here for a visit. Is there really a better chance for her parents to get a tourist visa if she is a a USC? How long does this process take? She would like them to come next summer, but I suspect that like most immigration applications it will take months to get citizenship and then months for her parents to get a visa. any other thoughts about this? thanks
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Why should someone become a US citizen, rather than just sticking with the "Green Card"? Starting about 10 years from now, we plan on spending 1/2 of every year in China at the very least, and maybe a full 12 months some years. I told my wife, there are 3 reasons to become a US citizen, basically: 1) Don't have to worry about renewing the card, or getting a re-entry permit if you leave for more than a year. But that's replaced with having to get a visa every time we go back to China. 2) Can vote. 3) Get more protection from the US govt if the Chinese govt decides to harass her. So at this point, she's not seeing a reason to do it (she doesn't care about voting, and she's not really afraid of Chinese govt harassment). I can't say I really disagree with her. Thoughts?
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My SO currently owns her own apartment in China. If/when we get married and she lives in the USA as a foreign national, I assume she can still own her apartment. If I am wrong, please let me know. But what happens in a few years down the road she decides to become an American Citizen. If she does would she be allowed to continue to own her own apartment or would she have to sell it??? Any thoughts or insights??? -
Just curious, and sorry if this has (most likely) been discussed many times before. What have people's spouses done with their Chinese citizenship once they attain U.S. citizenship? I'm pretty sure that neither country legally lets you keep both. What if your spouse has renounced her Chinese citizenship and wants to go back for an extended visit. Are visas a problem? And not to be morbid, but I have occassionally wondered, if something were to happen to me in the future and she decides she wants to go back to China permanently, would she be out of luck having given up her citizenship? Thanks.
