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Q: Getting Chinese nationality
Is there any way to get Chinese nationality not a green card. If you are married here in china. If your family backhome leave you. And you are doing quite good in china.
9 years 1 week ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Unless you are North Korean, why on earth would you want to become a Chinese citizen? To answer your question though. You must usually invest millions of dollars into China for a chance to become Chinese. You can then lose your home nationality and still be called a foreigner by 100% of the Chinese. It's a lose-lose situation. You might even get the bonus of a Chinese wage and you will become a hukou slave.
samad_khan772:
Dear Lord.
Well, what you said is 100% true. But if a person don't have any other choice what he/she will do. A friend of mine is in this kinda situation. He got married here and his family finished all of the relations with him. Even officially disqualified him from property and everything. What he had in his back home his family destroyed for him. His parents (ignorant people) burnt his home and so on. Now he don't want to go anywhere and he want to switch his nationality. He's quite settled here and he's on Q visa. Even his boy is a Chinese national too.
If there's any way plz let me know.
Thanks mate.
Lord_hanson:
Samad, the amount of money he would need is literally millions. He can use this amount of money to buy property in literally any country. Just because his family have disowned him it doesn't mean he can't return to his own country. He is very naive if he thinks changing his nationality will improve his situation. He can provide a better future for his family because of his higher wage whilst a foreigner. The only benefit he will get will be no visa but like I mentioned before he will have hukou which is more restrictive then a work visa.
Unless you are North Korean, why on earth would you want to become a Chinese citizen? To answer your question though. You must usually invest millions of dollars into China for a chance to become Chinese. You can then lose your home nationality and still be called a foreigner by 100% of the Chinese. It's a lose-lose situation. You might even get the bonus of a Chinese wage and you will become a hukou slave.
samad_khan772:
Dear Lord.
Well, what you said is 100% true. But if a person don't have any other choice what he/she will do. A friend of mine is in this kinda situation. He got married here and his family finished all of the relations with him. Even officially disqualified him from property and everything. What he had in his back home his family destroyed for him. His parents (ignorant people) burnt his home and so on. Now he don't want to go anywhere and he want to switch his nationality. He's quite settled here and he's on Q visa. Even his boy is a Chinese national too.
If there's any way plz let me know.
Thanks mate.
Lord_hanson:
Samad, the amount of money he would need is literally millions. He can use this amount of money to buy property in literally any country. Just because his family have disowned him it doesn't mean he can't return to his own country. He is very naive if he thinks changing his nationality will improve his situation. He can provide a better future for his family because of his higher wage whilst a foreigner. The only benefit he will get will be no visa but like I mentioned before he will have hukou which is more restrictive then a work visa.
You could try the nearest hospital, I hear they give it away free with every lobotomy operation performed here.
Seriously though, why would you want to? See Lord_hanson's answer above ....
No reason to become Chinese, their passport is one of the most useless to travel, when you become Chinese you will lose all the advantages of being a foreigner here but will keep all the disadvantages, you will earn a local salary (divide your current salary by 3) and will still be called a foreigner by Chinese people, they will still exclude you based on your race and you will never be able to build any guanxi.
Why do you think no one asks to become Chinese and so many of them want to get out?
they get you to say "fried rice". If you pronounce it "Flied Lice" they give you a passport
Thanks for your replies. Well a friend of mine is in a critical situation as of his family matters back home and all what I'm doing. Is to help him to get some information. My question isn't regarding the advantages or disadvantages of Chinese nationality.
If someone know anything, post it plz.
Thanks
Stiggs:
Fair enough... sorry for my stupid reply earlier and I hope your friend works his situation out.
ScotsAlan:
The closest you can get is a D visa. But that is time limited to 5 or 10 years.
If he gets married to a Chinese national he can get a Q visa. One year without a medical, 2 years with a medical. No need to leave China, but you cant work on it.
Get married, go to local PSB to apply for Q, easy. But you can't work on it.
On the plus side, the PSB people are actually really friendly and helpful. Getting married is easy, getting a Q is easy, but your friend's partner needs to put some effort in. That is normally the stumbling block.
samad_khan772:
No worries mate. I wish he get better and find some other way. As there's always the 3rd option....:p
samad_khan772:
Dear scot Alan,
Hope me you fine brother. For D visa my friend has to wait 2 more years as its his 3rd year in china As he's on Q visa.
The option would be nice... but it is so extremely rare that you probably don't have a chance. The only idiot I EVER heard of doing this was Da Shan (what a complete moron).
Anyway, if the allowed dual citizenship, then it would possibly be worth it but they don't.
Choosing Chinese citizen over your own country could possibly be the WORST decision anyone could EVER make.
You would have to have some significant social status or make a lot of money... but AGAIN... I never hear of anyone taking Chinese status over their own.
Very rare, to absolutely impossible.
This guy defected, stayed in China but was never was granted it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Veneris
So technically betraying your country even doesn't cut it.
Had a son and daughter in China....who emigrated to the US in the 1990s!
Watched "They Chose China" interesting film.
