Talk:Nationality Law of the Republic of China

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[edit] My recent edit of Dual Nationality section

In the Dual Nationality section, I made the following changes:

• moved a ref from the middle of a sentence to the end, following the punctioation (see WP:CITE), and fleshed out info about the citation. (I note in passing that the cited source may be pretty bad by WP:RS criteria).
• removed (in a sentence commenting on Article 9 of the ROC Nationality law) "(The USA has a similar clause, but it is not enforced, and Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States has long ago been eliminated.)" (1) this article is about the ROC, not the US, (2) a snippet from an oath is not comparable to a law, (3) laws (statutes) are generally enforceable but oaths are generally not (though deviation from a promise made in an oath might run afoul of some enforceable statute). -- Boracay Bill 00:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

OK. I reblended things afresh. Jidanni 01:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vagueness

The article says:

Citizens of the Republic of China are entitled to hold Republic of China passports. The passport is also issued to overseas Chinese, irrespective of whether they have lived in Taiwan.

And then "overseas Chinese" is linked to the article by that name. This article, however, focuses on ethnic Han Chinese--who (if my understanding is correct) are NOT automatically given ROC passports. What, then, does "overseas Chinese" mean in the ROC context?

I suspect it means "ROC citizens abroad" who already have an ROC passport, or who have an ROC passport-holding parent. No? But this kind of passport renewal service is routine for most countries, and hardly worth mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.167.168.222 (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)