escapades of the elusive kat

Well, it remains a fact that Macau (and Hong Kong) isn’t a country per se, so you don’t get any “nationality” even if you are from here. You get a residency permit and you can stay. Back then, before “being returned to China”, anyone born in Macau could get a Portuguese passport, so there are many Macau-Chinese people that had a Portuguese passport. I know a lot of people here that don’t have a passport (born in China and came to Macau) and now they have a Macau SAR passport.

Actually I was wrong up there. I could get a Macau passport if I want to, but because I am so obviously “foreigner”, so “without a doubt I have a foreign nationality”, and so if I want to get a Macau SAR passport I’d have to renounce my other nationality (in essence, I have to declare I am Chinese). I have some Chinese friends who are Macau born and look Chinese, so they can “claim” they don’t have a Portuguese passport, and so they now have 2 passports. But i have a friend who’s Chinese, but in her papers her Grandfather is listed to have a Portuguese surname (also pretty common back then), so they “know” she has a Portuguese passport, and she can’t get a Macau SAR passport unless she renounce her Portuguese nationality. It’s weird.