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Q: Does it matter if I'm late to register my kid(s) with my embassies?
Restraints on finances and time cause me to put this tedious task off for a while. Will there be legal problems if I register the marriage and child-birth later?
10 years 9 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
You mean you want to go get your kid a citizenship and a passport to go with it, right ? You have to ask the embassy that.
For me it doesn't matter, my kids will be eligible for citizenship hassle free until their 18th birthday, after that they will have to go through the tedious process of applying like everyone else.
Keep in mind that you have a month where you don't need to do the hukou stuff, so you would be doing that instead of going to your embassy, then you'd have to renounce the kids Chinese citizenship and then go to your embassy. Maybe it is cheaper to do it up front, even if it means going hat in hand and asking someone for money for the tickets.
I've been told by the British Embassy that it is not necessary. The UK Passport Authority told me the same. The Chinese certificates are valid.
Great. I can get on to this when the time calls for it. Back to scraping by in China, until my kids need western education.
As a matter of interest, how did you get married here without your consulate knowing about it? They are the people you had to ask for your certificate of no impediment.
Anyway, if your a Brit, the UK does not register your marriage if you are married under Chinese law. If you are married, you are married. It does not matter what country you done it in. I think it's a UN agreement that marriage certificates are international.
coineineagh:
With great difficulty, they accepted my Dutch civic information document, which stated that I was unmarried. They didn't like it at first, because there were Dutch terms on the thing. Each Dutch term was explained in English/German/French/Spanish in the legend. But after I explained that it's the only English version that the authorities give out, the translator accepted it.
ScotsAlan:
I understand now.
I have an Austrian friend here and his wife will have a baby soon. The problem he has is that the baby will automatically be Austrian and the Austrian Government will not be allow the baby to be registered as Chinese and be changed to Austrian later.
So this is really a country specific thing. I only know about the UK, and that the UK allows you do do a "secret" registration that allows the child to claim UK nationality at any time.
coineineagh:
Glad the British authorities are lenient in that regard. Austrian politics suffers from racist politicians who score points by being obstructive. Holland too, but franky who gives a rat's ass about my Dutch nationality? Not me.
