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Originally Posted by sabs
Congrats on the child!
To answer your second question, I am afraid the answer is yes, which means if you choose to rely on savings, your child will have to be born here in china.
We are really in a very similar situation, so I hope you don't mind my using your topic to throw in some questions I have.
I am a Chinese national married to an Englishman. Our daughter was born this February here in China, and we have been planning to move to England ever since. Things are looking grim after the new policy came into play last month.
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Your daughter is a dual Chinese-British national from birth, whether you apply for her passport or not.
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My husband has been working here for five years and his income last year was about 12,000 pounds. Mine was about 7,000 as I was, most of the time, on maternity leave. Our savings are about 13,000 pounds which haven't been touched in the last three months. We have property that we can sell for 40,000 pounds and my parents are willing to lend us at least 10,000 pounds, which we can pay back whenever.
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Loan from your parents is inadmissible. It has to be a cash gift, and in your account untouched for 6 months, like all other savings.
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Our solution to the financial requirement so far is for him to return to England and work for six months, when the salaried work requirement is met, we will apply for a spouse visa. It's a depressing plan because it means our little daughter will miss her first Christmas in England, and her father will miss her first birthday.
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That seems the only realistic way.
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So, my big question is, Is there a better way around it? A why that's shorter in time and doesn't require so much seperation time? It's almost impossible to find a Chinese job that pays as well as an English one. So it seems unfair to British expats living in China and wanting to move back together with a Chinese family.
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Not really. Selling your house and getting cash gift from your parents will still mean you have to wait at least 6 months in order to keep £62.500 untouched in your account,
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My other question regards my daughter, she is now registered as a Chinese citizen. So is it wiser for her to leave China as a British citizen or vice-versa? And if it's better for her to leave holding a british passport, how can we apply?
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China doesn't allow dual citizenship, so you need to proceed with caution. Read carefully the embassy site on nationality of a child born in China:
http://ukinchina.fco.gov.uk/en/help-...tering-a-birth
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And lastly, I passed BEC higher ten years ago, and the certificate I have is very different from the ones they issue now, thus it doesn't have everything they ask for. I don't have a 'secret number' that they can go online to verify the authenticity of my certificate. So does that mean I will need to sit in another language test?
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Almost certainly you need a fresh pass.