Linda Chung Now A Full-Fledged Hong Kong Girl
Since coming to Hong Kong to compete and win in the Miss Chinese Intentional pageant in 2004, Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣) did not return back to Canada and chose to further her career in Hong Kong instead. Yesterday, Linda happily held onto her ID card and tweeted over Weibo that she has stayed in Hong Kong for seven years now, thus successfully receiving her Hong Kong permanent resident identification card.
Linda expressed that she couldn’t believe that she had already spent seven years in Hong Kong in a blink of the eye. After attaining her Hong Kong permanent residency, Linda immediately received a congratulatory tweet from Tavia Yeung (楊怡)
Source: Orientaldaily.on.cc
This article was translated by Ah K, a Contributing Writer at JayneStars.com.
Ah K: Seems like it is rather easy to attain citizenship in Hong Kong. Just stay there (with a good job, of course) for seven years and one will be supplied with their citizenship. Or maybe the application process was sped up and approved only because Linda is quite a well-known celebrity there?
Wonder whether one is allowed to hold two citizenships, namely Hong Kong and Canada citizenships? Or was Linda required to forsake her Canada citizenship for Hong Kong’s? Sometimes, it’s good to have two citizenships as one of them could be used when buying houses to invest in that particular country (perhaps Canada since Hong Kong’s housing is known to be expensive?)
I wonder the same question, too. So HK accept 2 nationalities or not?
No, the id card is not the same as passport. it will give to free access in and out hk. i suppose you can apply for hk passport which will give easy access to china if you don’t have “return home card”.
I dun talk about ID card and Passport. Wat I mentioned is the dual nationality like LeilaFan mentioned below.
I do not believe Hong Kong citizen to have Dual, 2 nationalities/citizenship.
Because since 1997 Hong Kong been return to China and under nationality law of the PRC (People Republic China) (including in the HKSAR), they do not recognise dual nationality. Therefore, when you want to naturalise as a Hong Kong/Chinese citizen, you need to renounce other nationalities.
So if Linda want to become a Hong Kong citizen, she can no longer hold Canadian citizenship.
You can ask other Hong Kong people here. But I believe the answer is No Dual nationalities.
When you apply for the HK passport you need to also submit a copy of your current passport. the danger is that they will contact your country about this matter but i got the impression that they won’t do it. i never applied for it because of this risk.
I am in USA so long, and not plan to return to China so I don’t need PRC (China) citizenship.
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LeilaFan,
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LeilaFan,
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Ofcourse Jaynestars, thank you to you, all the contributors to maintain this site so we have a place to discuss and comments.
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linda can be both a canadian citizen and be a hkid holder.. if she wanted to, she could even apply to be a chinese citizen too. canadian government allows dual citizenship. i know. i have both my canadian citizen and china citizenship. it really depends on which citizenship you got first. if you had chinese first, then you have to naturalize in order to get a second citizenship. but if you got canadian first, chinese government will allow you to get chinese citizenship
It is PR, not citizenship. Technically even in US is so isn’t it?
Funn,
LOL hope you are enjoying your vacation!
vacation is over!!!
In USA it is call Citizenship. You can ask Jaynestars, since she lives in USA, she can answer this.
You can check this out here at the official United State Government website.
U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services: http://www.uscis.gov
@LeilaFan @Funn
American permanent residency (green card status) is obtained through a job, family ties, or refugee status. To become a US citizen, it requires 5 years of permanent residency and passing the naturalization test.
In Linda’s case, she actually became a permanent resident in Hong Kong after residing there for 7 years:
http://www.hkclic.org/en/topics/immigration/hk_permanent_residence/index.shtml
International students are only allow 4 years to stay in USA unless they can find a job in USA which permanently hire them, or else they will be return back to their country. This is why many students come to USA to study they try to find a boyfriend or a husband to married so they can stay here.
If USA hire you, then ofcourse you are legally can stay in USA for job. Refugee status, there many, anyone who are in Communist jail such as China, North Korea .. etc.. can apply for refugee, and USA will look at their condition and approve or not. Many Chinese political activists have been detained or jailed or exiled for their pro-democracy or rights defending activities, some are force to get out of China and cannot return.
And if your family are U.S citizen, they can sponser other blood related family members to USA.
Those are the ways to come to USA.
@leilafan:
You forget to say that if married Asian-America would be 5 years to get citizenship, but if married America( white) would be 3 years only 🙂
LOL. only 3 year for white? how about yellow and black 🙂
@anya, I don’t know about white. I married a Chinese, LOL!
My family are political refugee, I came to USA when I was young.
@anya, how you know so well about married white, did you married white to get to USA? LOL!
exoidus, is not easy like what anya said, here you can read here about the “3 years rules”, I just Google it. http://www.cundyandmartin.com/immigration/family/citizenship-through-marriage.php
@leilafan,
i just thought it was funny if that only applied to white americans 🙂
the point is that if you have money you can go anywhere.
exoidus, I like to make friends with you, since I think we have similars viewpoints on things. Do you use Paltalk?
Sometimes I want to exchange and ask advice about things like family, life, politics, .. etc.. but type here is kind of awkward when not related to the entertainment news, LOL! If it is OK, can you send me an Email: [email protected]
I want to save your Email just in case in the future if lost contact here. I think you are a very “mature” thoughts type of person and I want to make friends with you.
@leilafan:
Yes, I married white bad boy, but not for greencard hehehe…., I know because my aunt married my white friend, and after 3 years, she is doing papers for citizenship now
@anya, I was just kidding with you. Married white or Chinese doesn’t matter, any races are still all human.
Also married for greencard that is their choice, there are many women in poor countries like Vietnam, China, North Korea who married for greencard so they can get out of povery, and start a new life in USA where they can have freedom and oppotunities. I don’t blame those women, they have to feed themselves and their old mother and father too.
Now, If you just married straightout a gold-digger and have no love for your husband and just want his money, then that is to blame. But there are people who have difficult circumstances, especially in Communist countries where no justice, and not care for the people, so people have to find ways to get out.
So that means she is a permanent resident but not a citizen of Hong Kong. So she is still a Canadian until she chooses to give that up and become a HK citizen.. Wow, 7 years is actually quite long to get PR..
Better than Malaysia which is never unless.. well let’s not speak the obvious. I can’t imagine her giving up her Canadian passport for HK one when in HK it is the other way around.
depends on the type of benefits they get i guess. i think in canada, they get free healthcare, and it’s visa free to the US and some countries in europe & south america.
but if you have HK passport, you get (visa free) more freedom to other countries in Europe, and MAYBE better health care. although she must get visa to enter into US if she has HK passport.
It’s also 7 years in Australia too unless you study/marry a citizen or whatever to get more points to speed up the process.
Thank you everyone who has submitted their take on this matter. I guess as @Funn and @Jayne had pointed out, it would be more appropriate to say that Linda attained HK permanent residency rather than citizenship.
Just found out that Hong Kong does allow dual nationality (but it is very subjective as according to Article 3 of the Nationality Law of the PRC, it states that dual nationality or citizenship is not recognised. However, in HK, that is subjected to “the explanations” made by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC).) so it may be possible for Linda to be a Canadian citizen as well as a Hong Kong PR.
Yeah, Hong Kong might have exception.
I born in China, when I immigrant with my family to USA and became U.S citizen, I no longer can hold my PRC (China) citizenship.
So I know for sure China does not allow dual citizenship.
“so it may be possible for Linda to be a Canadian citizen as well as a Hong Kong PR.”
Let’s be clear on the difference between PR and citizenship. She is still a canadian passport holder but I suppose as a PR she doesn’t need working visa and such. Even in Malaysia which does not allow dual citizenship allows a person to be Malaysian citizen and 10 other country’s PR. So I don’t see what is the issue with Linda’s PR-ship. Linda does not have dual citizenship in this case; she has a PR. Pure and simple.
See here for explanation;
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-permanent-resident-and-vs-citizen/
@Funn Lim:
Oohs ok, case closed then?
Well, in Vancouver (where Linda’s from), the real estate is very expensive compared to most places in Canada. A nice house on the West Side easily costs 2 million CDN. So unless she’s gonna continue living in HK, there’s no point in in returning home and buying a house.
Typo ~ “Intentional” should be “International” 😛
I understand from My HK friend, HK allow 2 citizenship. So Linda is HongKong PR and still hold on to her own Canadian citizen.. Happy for her
I believe so too as my parents are citizens of HK and another country. So the next step for her if she wanted to is to obtain citizenship.
I remember I read somewhere Linda’s parents emigrated to Canada from HK am I correct? I’m sure she chooses to be based in HK for career opportunities. I honestly find Linda sweet looking and she seems to be a nice girl but I never find her pretty.
Holding a Permanent Residency HKID card does not mean citizenship. Since she was born abroad, her permanent resident status might be revoked if she leaves HK continiously for three years.
I have an acquantaince who was born in the US but raised through childhood and teenage years in another country. Only come back again to US to attend college and then managed to work for the U.S Govt since he keep his US citizenship.
… big question is, can she get a HK passport or a China Card?
Hong Kong
China do not allow dual citizenship, no way China will let Linda have Canadian citizen too.
Hong Kong (There are exceptions, so Linda possible can have both Canadian + Hong Kong)
… thanks for that… that’s too bad… i guess she’ll have to line China’s pockets with visas if she decides to work in China with the likes of Charmaine etc…
On the exceptions bit, i know friends born in the UK who managed to get China card after 2001 at China Travel Service in HK, but some other friends who went the same route were rejected – so not sure what happened there…???
Like Anna explain below. Having a China card does not means having PRC (China citizenship)
Many people come in China everyday, for study, for business, for work, but those does not means they are the “People Republic of China” citizenship/nationality.
For example, like your friend who born in UK can apply Visa to go to China, Visa to go to China have all kinds, from Tourist Visa, to Working Visa to Students Visam, and others, but these are not permanent.
If your friend who born in UK (meaning will have UK citizenship), if later your friend want to become China citizen, he/she have to give up her UK citizen first.
As for rejection, China government have the rights to reject anyone from coming into their country, I don’t know why your friend got rejected, maybe apply the wrong way? Didn’t have all the documents they ask, etc..
I have Permanent HKID and British Passport .
You have to stay here in HK for 7 years in Hk to get it permanent. And if you want you can apply for HK passport but you have to give up the PassPort your holding .
When you have HKID , you can still go and live in country your from but you have to enter in HK every 3 years otherwise your HKID will revoked.
Having citizenship and ID in different .
Having citizenship is like changing your nationality ( ex. From chinese to British )
But having ID , you don’t have change you nationality nor matter which country your from ( ex. I will be still be British even if I have ID until I don’t have passport of another country )
I hope your understand
And I Love Hong Kong <3
it’s just a permanent residency card, what’s the big deal?
she may get better benefits such as discount at Disneyland lol