My wife and I just applied for our son's exit visa from China (1-year multiple entry). In China, even though the child does not have any official Chinese documents (e.g. citizenship card, household register, passport, birth certificate shows that he is Canadian, etc), they still consider him/her to be Chinese! Outrageous! I told the officer that he is 100% Canadian as evidenced by his passport and citizenship document (both from Canada), but she insisted that he is 100% Chinese and not Canadian. Can you believe that crap??!! Anyways, he needs this exit permit to be allowed (again, outrageous) to leave China. Without it, he would be barred from leaving the country. The exit permit looks like a passport and we'll need that plus his Canadian passport to leave the country. I was very polite to the Chinese officer, but inside I was enraged that the Chinese government would still consider him a Chinese citizen.
Anyways, this exit permit will arrive in a week. Once we have that, we can come and go without any problems for up to 1 year. Hopefully my wife will have her visa within 8 months and we can get the hell out of here!
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