Permanent resident - China visa

How does she have two passports, I was under the understanding that Chinese SAR passports do not allow dual nationality.


I know it does not answer your first question, but basically if the answer is I am incorrect and you can hold dual nationality, then naturalise and get yourself an SAR passport.

You should be able to get a 3 year visa based on the fact that you are a permanent resident. If you travel frequently for business it would make sense to apply for an APEC card.

Well a couple of things first about the passports. To gain an HKSAR passport one has to be either a Chinese citizen or naturalised Chinese citizen. So your wife will be a Chinese citizen whether she realises it or not! Secondly it's perfectly possible for a HK born Chinese citizen to have more than one passport, my kids have 2 passports - one being an HKSAR one as do many other Chinese. However if you are naturalising as a Chinese you would have to renounce your own nationality first but I digress.....


As to the second question who you are married to does not alter anything for normal China visa's (business, tourist, etc). However should you ever apply for a working visa they will ask you to give details of all immediate Chinese relatives - spouse, kids, etc. Even then it makes no difference to the application.

Yes but if you want to naturalise which you need to do in order as a non ethnically Chinese foreign person, to obtain an SAR passport, you have to renounce all other nationalities, but the Chinese government are pretty liberal with people who are ethnically Chinese. I guess they dont expect the same of people who are of Chinese Descent.


i.e. in the sense that if you are ethnically Chinese, if you try and get an SAR passport, you are not expected to renounce, because there is no naturalisation process. at least that is how I understand it.


However, I have a friend though that is a second generation Australian Chinese though, who is a PR in Hong Kong and cant get an SAR passport because she was told she had to renounce her Australian passport, which is what she was told she had to do.


IF you read the China naturalisation law, it is very poorly coded because it is Chinese law not Hong Kong law, and is ambiguous which means as with everything there, it is subject to interpretation of the person dealing with your case.