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PatrickSiheung
Joined: 21 May 2003
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 Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: registering a newborn |
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hi,
I'm borrowing patricks username...
I became the proud father of a baby boy 3 weeks ago.
Today we went to register him at the local gu office.
It was a nightmare.
They have told us that he is a nz citizen(as I am) as here they follow a paternal registration system. This I find very difficult to believe.
I know a few posters here have had children in korea and I would greatly appreciate hearing from them.
Is it really true that a child born in Korea to a korean mother connot be a Korean citizen?
Help and guidance please. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I honestly have no idea but you may have run into a 'rougue clerk' who just didn't want to deal with it. But from the new zealand end if you wish him to become a kiwi information is here. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations  |
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Scott in Incheon
Joined: 30 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Both of my girls were born here and they are both Korean citizens. So I don't know what the clerk it talking about.
But they are register under my wife's name at the local office. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: registering a newborn |
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| PatrickSiheung wrote: |
| They have told us that he is a nz citizen(as I am) as here they follow a paternal registration system. This I find very difficult to believe. |
It used to be that a child could hold dual citizenship up until the age of 18 but this was changed last year. Korea does not recognize dual citizenship, and you are supposed to renounce your child's NZ citizenship for them to gain SK citizenship.
You could say that you wanted him to have only SK citizenship and then register with the NZ government later to have both. NZ will recognize him as having both citizenships, but Korea will view him as only being a SK citizen. And that means welcome to the Army. |
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Porter_Goss
Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Location: The Wrong Side of Right
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:06 am Post subject: Re: registering a newborn |
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| Gord wrote: |
| And that means welcome to the Army. |
I think that's the main reason for the change. People with dual citizenship, serving in other nation's militaries, were f-ing up the conscription system. Korea didn't know how to deal with those folks. |
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bigscott
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| My daughter was born here 3 months ago. We registered her at the local Gu office with my surname as a Korean. We had no problems at all and she appears on our family register paper. We then applied for her Australian citizenship and got the certificate a couple of days ago...again, with no problems. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Congrats! Good luck with getting the tyked signed up and all sorry I can't help you. |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
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2 daughters, both registered at the local office as Korean, then I took the trip into the consulate in Seoul with their Korean birth certificate and my wife and I's hojuk for their British certificates, which will entitle them to a passport later with fewer headaches. One form, a few Korean papers and about 2 weeks. No problems.
Sounds like you met a chickenhead. |
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