Who can and cannot be a dual national, as well as the joys and frustrations accompanying that status. Includes ROC Passport and Military Conscription issues
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by XinBiDe » 26 May 2009, 10:00
As an American with no ties to Taiwan except a wife, could one get a Taiwanese passport? Assuming I've lived there for several years...
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by sandman » 26 May 2009, 10:06
Give up your US one, first, then you can apply for an ROC one. If you're below 35 or so, expect to be drafted. Several people posting here have done so. There are threads on the subject.
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by XinBiDe » 26 May 2009, 10:10
I have to sacrifice my US citizenship just to have an ROC passport?
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by urodacus » 26 May 2009, 10:51
hardly seems tempting, does it? and you'll eventually be a citizen of the PRC if things keep going the way they are, which is another joy to contemplate.
The prizes are a bottle of f*!@#$% SCOTCH and a box of cheap f!@#$#$ CIGARS!
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by Satellite TV » 03 Jun 2009, 10:11
urodacus wrote:hardly seems tempting, does it? and you'll eventually be a citizen of the PRC if things keep going the way they are, which is another joy to contemplate.
Well never mind it's very convenient when you go to China to know you are not an illegal immigrant and that you can legally work.

It's such a pleasure living in a world where everyone is in such a hurry to be outraged over someone else’s trivial comments
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