People who go to Hong Kong with one-way permits become non-permanent residents. Can they resume their mainland hukou now?

1. The main targets of the policy mechanism of returning to the Mainland are new immigrants from the Mainland and "double non-children" who are not adapted to life in Hong Kong.

2. New immigrants who have lived in Hong Kong for less than seven years are not eligible to apply for permanent resident status in Hong Kong.

At the same time, if the above two conditions are met, you can apply to the relevant departments of the original household registration in the Mainland to restore the household registration in the Mainland, thus restoring the household registration in the Mainland.

Under normal circumstances, the domestic hukou needs to be cancelled, which is a prerequisite for the public security bureau or public security department in your hometown to issue a one-way permit. One-way permit will be issued only when Chinese ID card and domestic account are cancelled at the same time (usually on the same day, the order is still to cancel ID card and account first, and then issue one-way permit). If you are the only one in the household registration book, even the household registration book should be taken back. If you are only a member of the hukou book, then your personal page will be stamped with a cancellation stamp and the hukou book will be returned to you.

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Du Nan News reporter Kang Yin According to Hong Kong media reports, the Ministry of Public Security has set up a "return mechanism" so that new immigrants from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and "non-children" whose parents are not Hong Kong residents can apply for the restoration of their household registration in the Mainland, but at the same time they must give up their Hong Kong identity cards and cannot apply again in the future.

At the two sessions of the National People's Congress, representatives of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) submitted a proposal to set an adaptation period for the one-way permit mechanism for mainland residents to settle in Hong Kong, so that those who come to Hong Kong with one-way permits can apply to return to their original places of residence in the Mainland during the adaptation period. This is the so-called "return mechanism". Relevant mechanisms have been included in the study of legal provisions and handed over to the State Council.

The main targets of the "return mechanism" are new immigrants from the mainland and "double non-children" who are not adapted to life in Hong Kong. Among them, new immigrants want to apply to the mainland before they are eligible to apply for permanent resident status in Hong Kong, while parents apply for "double non-children". Two types of people can apply to the mainland authorities to restore their household registration, but at the same time, they must indicate that they agree to give up their Hong Kong identity cards and cannot apply for Hong Kong identity cards in the future.

If the person concerned wishes to restore Hong Kong's permanent resident status after retrieving the mainland account, the Hong Kong Immigration Department may notify the mainland to follow up.

Tan Yaozong, chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, said that the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) had long proposed to the central authorities to set up a repatriation mechanism because some one-way permit holders found that they could not adapt to life in Hong Kong and lost their mainland household registration instead. He believes that the establishment of this mechanism will benefit both Hong Kong and these one-way permit holders.

At present, there are about 200,000 "double non-children" in Hong Kong, and some families find it difficult to adapt to life in Hong Kong, including competing with local children for school places, or going to school across the border and being separated from their mainland families. There are also "double non-children" who cannot attend public schools in the Mainland because they have no household registration in the Mainland. They can only attend expensive international schools or private schools, which their families can't afford, so they want to give up their permanent residence status in Hong Kong.

A cross-border parent organization revealed that more than half of the "double non-"children in Hong Kong are mainland super-born children. They are worried that even if a "repatriation mechanism" is set up in the Mainland, it will be difficult for non-parents to arrange for their children to return to the Mainland if they cannot be exempted from a huge fine of several hundred thousand yuan. Johnny, chairman of the Association of Parents of Cross-border Children in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, bluntly said that even if the mainland intends to let the "double-non-children" apply for mainland household registration, many parents of double-non-children will still choose to arrange their children to study in Hong Kong, unless they are exempted from the fine for having more children.