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by Davidinchina » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:39 am
I'm in a similar position with my son who attends an International School in Shanghai and holds a Chinese and a UK passport. He had a ROA certificate in his old, now expired, Chinese passport which expired with the passport. He was given it because he held the UK passport but I understand that in future this will not be possible, he cannot have a new ROA unless he hands in his UK passport. He would still have UK citizenship and could apply for a new passport in future. However we don't want to go down this route.
So for the moment he must fly via a third country to go to the UK. Luckily he holds a multi visit schengen visa so can fly to say Amsterdam, go through immigration then re-enter the airport using his UK passport on a ticket to London using his English not Chinese name. Coming back is the same in reverse so that his Chinese passport shows entry and exit stamps for Holland.
He cannot go via Hong Kong, as asked above, as the same passport must be used to enter and leave.
It's been suggested he could get an Irish visa which would allow him to transit through the UK to Dublin. He could just stop in the UK and not go to Dublin but that might cause problems for the return flight.
It's all very annoying but I don't know of any other solution whilst retaining both passports.
As to the original question, your grandson can travel back to China to join his school on his Chinese passport and can continue to use the ROA certificate to return to the UK until they expire. No need for China to know about his UK passport. However once the ROA expires you will have the same problem as I do. Hope the above is helpful.
