Registering my baby in China

[elipomerleau]

I'm a Canadian, my wife is Chinese and our baby was born last week in china. I already know it qualifies to be Canadian. But we aren't planning on returning to Canada in the foreseeable future. My question is, if we apply for Chinese citizenship for the baby, then wish to move to Canada in a couple of years, will we need to go through the dreadfully difficult application for canadian citizenship since would be recognized as a Chinese citizen?

We want it Chinese now simply because it makes all of the babies legal matters much easier while we live in china.

Thanks for your help!

 

[truesmile]

I don't see a problem with that. Be born in China, and also to a Canadian citizen father, the baby would automatically maintain BOTH citizenships! Not only does your baby "qualify" to be Canadian, he/she IS Canadian already, you just have to go through some paperwork with the Canadian embassy there.