After acquiring foreign nationality, why must you personally go to cancel your household registration? Here’s what a professional lawyer says: According to Article 9 of the Nationality Law, Chinese nationality is automatically lost when you acquire foreign nationality while residing abroad. According to household registration regulations, you are indeed required to report to the local police station in your place of household registration to cancel your household registration. But here’s the issue: Is this process designed for better management—or simply to create unnecessary hardship for those who have already moved abroad? Why require voluntary reporting when traveling back to China is inconvenient? If you don’t report it, you’ll get stuck upon returning to China: unable to obtain visas, unable to use your ID card, and even facing issues with entry and exit. Many people say: If nationality is automatically lost, why isn’t the household registration canceled automatically? It feels like being caught between two systems. Is this procedure meant to clarify the rules—or to add an extra layer of hassle for ordinary people?