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Thanks for the reply. I left HK when I was 13 and can't remember I had a ID or not, probably not. I still have the old passport. But as I said in the first post, I have a birth certificate. Hope that will be enough.

My purpose to get the HK id at first is like your aunt, ease of travel to China, but eventually retiring in China.

So after getting HK id, I will get HK passport, and Home Return Permit. My big issue is I don't have a HK address.

I don't think you need an address to get it, but I think you might need one for correspondence.

In HK birth does not grant the natural right to live in HK, which means you'd probably need to still need to prove you are eligible based on the criteria. If you had your parents' ID, it might help since one of the criteria is one parent being an HK/Chinese national.

The difficultly my mom had was the proving the 7 years. To do this, she was getting school attendance records, but since all her records were so old, it took time to locate them and then deliver them. Since these were just vacation trips to HK, she couldn't always get this accomplished in one trip, thus it took a few trips over a few years.