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4:58 pm
July 22, 2010

terranaut

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Hi, I'm curious as to whether or not any of you have kept your babies Chinese and

not registered them abroad (foreign passport) or otherwise. My impression is that a child

can remain a Chinese citizen up to the age of 17 before they need to be registered and perhaps choose to be, in my case, a U.S. citizen.

I've spoken with parents who have decided to keep their kid(s) Chinese, and it seems like it might be the right thing to do if we are planning on staying in China for the duration (lifetime). I think it would be good to keep them Chinese and leave room for discussion about having foreign citizenship with a 17-year-old rather than a newborn!

I've heard all of the talk about why they should be a U.S. citizen, but we really have no intentions of going back to the States.

What are your thoughts?

7:37 am
August 19, 2010

Jeremy

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Thanks for the post. Our decision was quite simple since we are U.S. citizens and plan to return there at some point. Nor are we ethnically Chinese, so it just made sense to get US citizenship. I suppose it would be different if we didn't have intentions to go back and/or are Chinese.

I guess my question for you is, what are the negatives of having US citizenship?

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