Chinese Canadian giving birth in Hongkong,can baby get HKSAR passport or HK PIC ?

Hi, OBIWAN, CARANG, Nicolejoy,

Thanks a lots for all the information which make wife and me very happy . Actually, I have two chidren born in Canada . The third one is coming , I really want my family to have a strong tie with China,so my wife and I have been discussing this for a long time .Now we definitely have an good answer .

Thank you all.
 
That is really confusing.. I thought you get the nationality of the place where your are born. Like you instantaneously become american if you are born in the US, or canadian if you are born in Canada..... If your are born in HK, China, isn't that enough to make you a chinese?????
 
Nope!! You don't automatically become citizen of the country you are born. Each country has its own immigration law I'm afraid.
 
Hi, my baby was born in HK. Parents are both Canadian and HK citizen. Same as your baby, my baby, born in HK got the HKSAR passport AND the RE-entry permit (in a book) AND HK ID card. We did all these in the Sheng Wan/Central Immigration office. His Canandian Proof of Citizenship is also in process and will take 12-14 months. Then we can apply for the Canadian passport (only 10 business day). If you want to bring your baby to China, the RE-entry permit (in a book) AND the HK ID card is good enough because it will be another 14-15 months before you can get the Canadian passport.
 
actually a canadian passport takes 15 working days AND you can apply for it BEFORE you receive your child's citizenship card.
 
Kids under 11 CAN now get a HKID. My daughter has HK citizenship & passport through her grandparents (my husband is Australian born Chinese), and she has her own HKID with her own number. She's 6 months old.
We never expected her to get it nor did we try to get it, they just gave my husband a form when he registered her birth.
 
really> guess i should take my two kids down to the office...

what do you need to get it? just a birth cert?
 
We got the ID card at the same time as her passport so it could just be the certificate or you might need a form completed (there seems to be a form for everything now).
 
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