Similarly, overseas Chinese must present Chinese documents of the first order--such as old ROC passports, entry permits, identity cards, household registries or identification certificates for overseas Chinese issued by the Ministry of the Interior or the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission--before they can obtain a new ROC passport. The certificates attesting to Chinese ethnicity issued by Chinese cooperative associations in the home countries of overseas Chinese are no longer accepted.
同樣的，海外華僑一定要提出中國人的積極證明文件，例如我國護照、入境證副本、國民身分證、戶口名簿，或內政部發的國籍證明書、僑委會發的華僑身分證明書…… 等，才可能拿到我國護照；過去曾被從寬認定的當地華人協會發的「華人證明書」，如今已經不被認可。