USA Passport: Required Documents for Taiwanese-Born Child with 1 USA Parent?

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@justinram11

do we need to get his English name onto the English-translation of the household registration?

@SuiGeneris

You need the household registration in addition to the birth certificate

Make sure you register the ‘real’ English name on the English household registration transcript, the same one as the birth certificate. If one has a transliteration and the other has the ‘real’ name you may encounter issues.

You can follow my guide on how to do this here:

Guide: How to register a 'real' English name for your Taiwanese child

Today I registered my Taiwanese daughters English name, not using a transliteration of her Chinese name, but using a ‘real’ English name. The English surname I registered is also different to the Chinese surname. The Chinese surname matches my wife’s surname, and the English surname matches mine. I hope that in this post I can explain how I did it, as many parents have posted that they were not allowed to do it or met resistance. As far as I know, there are two ways to register an official Engl…