Online Application for Restoration of Chinese Nationality

If you intend to apply for Restoration of Chinese Nationality, you can use the Immigration Department’s online service. This article will give you the details.

How and Where to Apply

To apply for Restoration of Chinese Nationality, you are required to complete an application form and submit it with supporting documents through the link below:

List of Forms and Documents in Support of an Application for Restoration of Chinese Nationality

Fee

Having received your application, Immigration Department will check the application form and all the supporting documents. You will be contacted to pay for the prescribed fee afterwards or provide supplementary documents (if necessary).

A fee of HK$1,150 is payable upon submission of the application. However, the collection of fee does not constitute any guarantee or assurance that the application for restoration of Chinese nationality will be approved.

If the applicant pays by cheque or bank draft, it should be crossed and made payable to “The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. If the applicant selects to make the payment by post of cheque or bank draft, the cheque or bank draft should be drawn on a bank in the HKSAR in HK or US Dollars (HK$1,150 or US$148). If the cheque or bank draft is not drawn on a bank in the HKSAR or not in HKSAR currency, the applicant should also include a bank handling charge of HK$100 (or US$13) in the same cheque or bank draft. No cash should be sent.

Alternatively, the applicant may nominate a local referee to pay the fee on his/her behalf after receiving notification from the Immigration Department.

The fee paid is non-refundable in all circumstances.

Assistance and Further Information

If you need technical assistance in using the online service, you can call the Immigration e-Services Hotline at (852) 3128 8668 between 7 am and 11 pm daily.

For general enquiries, please call (852) 2824 6111 during office hours (from 8:45 am to 5:15 pm, Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 12 noon on Saturday, except public holidays), send a fax to (852) 2877 7711 or send an email to enquiry@immd.gov.hk.