How to apply for overseas Chinese status?

1. The following materials are required to apply for the Returned Overseas Chinese Card:

Provide the certificate of residence of China's embassies and consulates abroad;

foreign long-term residence permit;

passport;

the certificate of the applicant's relatives' street office in China;

my application for returning to China for settlement. Please go to the local Overseas Chinese Affairs Office for details

2. If you don't return to China, just issue a certificate:

Issued by the household administration department of your husband's country and confirmed by the Chinese embassy (consulate) in that country, and attach a copy of the valid certificate (ID card or passport); Go to your local Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.

Extended information:

1. Overseas Chinese

refer to China citizens living abroad.

(1) "Residency" means that China citizens have obtained long-term or permanent residency in their country of residence, and have lived in their country of residence for two consecutive years, with a cumulative residence of not less than 18 months within two years.

(2) Not less than 3 months, regarded as overseas Chinese.

(3) China citizens are not regarded as overseas Chinese during their study abroad (including public schools and at their own expense), or during their work abroad on official business (including sending laborers abroad).

2. Foreign Chinese

refers to former China citizens who have joined foreign nationality and their descendants of foreign nationality; Foreign descendants of China citizens.

3. Returned overseas Chinese

refers to overseas Chinese who have returned to China to settle down.

(1) "Returning to China to settle down" means that overseas Chinese give up their long-term, permanent or legal right of abode in their original country and go through the formalities of returning to China to settle down according to law.

(2) Foreign Chinese who have been approved to restore or acquire China nationality and have gone through the formalities of settling in China according to law are regarded as returned overseas Chinese.

Fourth, the relatives of overseas Chinese

refer to the families of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese in China.

(1) Family members of overseas Chinese include: spouses of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese, parents, children and their spouses, brothers and sisters, grandparents, grandchildren, grandchildren, and other relatives who have long-term support relations with overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese.

(2) Family members of foreign Chinese with China nationality in China are regarded as relatives of overseas Chinese.

Reference: Overseas Chinese _ Baidu Encyclopedia?