A Russian Woman, her Chinese Husband and Their Son with Two Passports

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Visa Complexity Vexes Parents of Dual Nationality Chinese Children. Los Angeles Times, Apr 19, 2015
(Maria "Gromakova has decided to renounce her son's Chinese citizenship. That will allow him to get a Chinese visa in his Russian passport and enroll in school in China. And, holding a foreign passport will give him a huge advantage in China when it comes time to go to college: as a non-Chinese, he will be exempt from the grueling Chinese college entrance exams and needs only to pass a language proficiency test to enter top universities")

Note:
(a) "Beijing education consultant Wang Hui and her American husband faced a similar problem with their son, who was born in Beijing but has a US passport. * * * It took Wang, 36, more than a month to obtain an 'entry-exit permit' [actually 'exit-entry permit' 出入境通行证] for her son for their initial trip to visit her husband's parents in 2012."

(b) "Victoriya Batueva, who is from Ulan-Ude, Russia, and is married to a Chinese man, is facing a similar dilemma. The couple avoid taking their daughter to Russia because the one time they did, Batueva had to have her father drive her 10 hours through Siberia in winter to reach the nearest Chinese Consulate, in Irkutsk, and obtain a special travel document for the then-10-month-old to return to Shanghai."
(i) Ulan-Ude
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude
(capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia; section 1 Names)
(ii) Irkutsk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk
(a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia; "The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name")