Hi,
My wife (Chinese) and I (British) have been together for about ten years, through our PhDs and early careers in the UK. A very good opportunity came up in China close to my wife's home town and we moved out to Anhui just over a year ago. Part of the decision was that we wanted to start a family and be close to my wife's parents.
My wife is due in May. As I understand it the default as far as the Chinese authorities are concerned will be for the baby to be a Chinese citizen. But we can apply for British citizenship if we want to. It is not officially possible to hold both citizenships.
As we expect to be in China for a good few more years it makes sense to us that we accept the default of Chinese nationality - I think that this would probably make living and learning in China easier. The option to become British will always be there if he or she wants to go that way in the future.
Unless somebody can give us a reason to go the otherway I think that is what we will do - I am also guessing it is probably easier to go from Chinese to British than the other way?
Does anybody on here have experience of this? Which way did you go and how is it working out?
Also we plan to go to back to England over Christmas & NY 2019 should that be enough time to sort out the passport and visa etc for the baby?
Thankt
Andy