Introduction and some questions

[Randy W]

I swore I replied to this, but I must not have ...

 

My older son has an American passport (actually we didn't get it until he was a year old and the embassy said we should have gotten it sooner, but still gave us his passport and we didn't have any trouble from them or the Chinese). My daughter is just a month old, but we have an appointment to have her passport done later in the month. I think the registration stuff about 1000RMB fines is referring to kids born to foreign/foreign couples in China, since China considers foreign/Chinese kids born in China to be Chinese by default.

 

Since my children are half Chinese the government here actually won't put them on visas until we've left the country on the exit permit that was mentioned before. We have to go back to where my husband's hukou is registered in Yunnan to get the exit permits. We plan on doing that this summer when I have enough time off for us to travel, but we've been down to the Beijing entry/exit authority and they've assured us there is no rush to get this done. The only issue is that until their passports have been used to enter China, the Chinese government still considers my kids Chinese, albeit Chinese without hukous. We discovered all this exit permit stuff when we tried to take a trip to Thailand last year and couldn't becase of the lack of an exit permit for my son.

 

Anyhow, the kids won't be an issue by the time we're ready to go to the States, we're going to do the exit permit ahead of time and just get it out of the way.

You did, it was split off because it became a topic all it's own.

 

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=40194

 

I think Gale's contribution should be moved or copied to that topic, as it provides the additional information about the American resident issue.