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After you have submitted your application

A card will be given to you to acknowledge receipt of your application. (The card will be sent to you by post if the application is submitted by post.) Arrangement will be made to interview you at a later date. If you need to get in touch with the Immigration Department about any other aspect of your application, please write to the Nationality Sub-section, Immigration Department, 4th Floor, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, and give your full name, date and place of birth and your application number.

The declaration in Part 5 includes an undertaking to inform the Director of Immigration of any changes which may affect the accuracy of any information you put on the application form. It is important to do this while your application is being considered.

A successful applicant will be issued with a certificate of renunciation of Chinese nationality. The Director of Immigration may cancel the certificate if the Director is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the certificate was obtained by fraud, false representation or the concealment of any material fact. Action may be taken against that person in accordance with law.

After renunciation of Chinese nationality, you are no longer a Chinese national and you will have to surrender your Chinese passport or HKSAR passport or certificate of naturalization as a Chinese national (if any) for cancellation.

If a person has renounced his Chinese nationality and later wishes to resume Chinese nationality, he will need to apply for restoration of Chinese nationality.

If the application for renunciation of Chinese nationality is not approved, you will remain a Chinese national.