Taiwanese tourist loses citizenship after getting duped into a temporary Chinese passport for trip to Russia
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/11/06
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Taiwanese tourist has been stripped of his household
Taiwan passport (left), China passport (right). (By Wikimedia Commons)
registration (hukou, 戶口) and passport after he was reported for having a temporary Chinese passport, which his travel agency had helped him apply for during a trip to Russia, reported UDN.
Last week, a Taiwanese tourist rushed into the the Taichung City Qingshui District Household Registration Office livid after having been notified that he had been stripped of his Taiwan hukou for receiving a China passport. The man, surnamed Yen (顏), said that he was one of 20 Taiwanese who after trip to Vladivostok, Russia in early October unwittingly, “returned as Chinese citizens.”
When Yen requested to have his residence restored and inquired whether he could still go abroad on trips with his Taiwanese passport, he was notified that his passport had also been revoked. Staff at the household registration office contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on his behalf, but they did not provide an official response on the reason why his passport had been cancelled, though sources in the travel industry say he may soon face charges. It is not known whether the other members of the tour have suffered the same punishment as Yen. [FULL STORY]
