China Paspoort
“Waar kom je vandaan?”
When I was planning my journey back to China I needed to apply for a Visa. On the Visa form it was asked you if you had a Chinese nationality/citizenship at one point in your life. Since I have had a Chinese passport, I answered yes. This resulted in a wearying bureaucratic process to cancel my, already invalid, Chinese passport. I had to travel to the Hague, and bring my passport to get it cancelled. I also had to gather more documents, to proof my adoption and my abandonment at birth. At the embassy in the Hague I had to sign a document stating An Ye Zhi de Jong hereby cancels her Chinese passport. A passport that was already made invalid by leaving China, was made invalid a second time. They cut a piece out of the passport and stamped “cancelled” in it five times.