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For me, I could never do it, I'm a Brit and proud of it, even tho I hate it here in the UK and hate all the UK seems to stand for in policy and war.global gypsy wrote:I am curious to find out how many on this forum are multiple citizens, i.e. citizens of more than one country. I once sat next to someone on a flight who had 4 citizenships plus US green card!
I am an Aussie/Canadian who is currently on his way to UK residency.
Sorry to ruin your weekend, but you are most likely already an Irish citizen. You would have to actively renounce your Irish citizenship to avoid your present dual-citizenship. The passport is just the travel document that you could apply for or not as you wish.Wanderer wrote:My grandfather was Irish, I can take Irish citizenship, but I won't. For one I can't find any proof my gramps even existed, and I just don't feel comfortable with it, despite a deep love for Celtic Music...
More like a passport whore.Wanderer wrote:To be fair to me, I think I said I would think of myself as a passport-pimp if I had multiple citizenships, although I phrased it quite badly. Blame the San Miguel..!
Apologies anyway if I offended!
I still feel the same tho, having another citizenship is like having another woman, nice and useful but immoral at the same time! That's me personally before I get accused of saying every dual-citizen is having it off with the wife's sister.....
I do feel it's a one or the other thing, in my book..
Not true, actually. People with an Irish grandparent are entitled to register as citizens but they are not actually considered citizens until they are on the foreign births register. The practical result of this is that citizenship can only be passed on to great-grandchildren of Irish heritage if the grandchild registered citizenship before having the great-grandchild.Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:Sorry to ruin your weekend, but you are most likely already an Irish citizen. You would have to actively renounce your Irish citizenship to avoid your present dual-citizenship.Wanderer wrote:My grandfather was Irish, I can take Irish citizenship, but I won't. For one I can't find any proof my gramps even existed, and I just don't feel comfortable with it, despite a deep love for Celtic Music...
Why do you think it is “immoralâ€Wanderer wrote:having another citizenship is like having another woman, nice and useful but immoral at the same time!
Dawie wrote:The days of loyalty to your country and all that crap are over. I have dual citizenship as well with British and South African citizenship, and I can honestly say the main overriding reason I acquired British citizenship is for the ease of travel that a British passport affords me. Plain and simple. I don't feel loyalty to any country, to be honest. I am a citizen of the world.
Anyone who says that having more than one citizenship is immoral or wrong or disloyal or unpatriotic, etc is stuck in some kind of 50's timewarp.
The truth is that citizenship has become more of a bureaucratic convenience than an expression of your loyalty to your country. I'm surprised that Brits, cynical as they are, would attach any sort of patriotic meaning to citizenship.
Not offended at all (speaking personally), but while your views are your views and you can of course hold them about yourself - that is your prerogative - I don't think that you can necessarily imply that those views are right for other people, each of whose personal circumstances is, ultimately, unique. (I know that you didn't actually say you were doing that, but it was perhaps implied, albeit perhaps unintentionally.)Wanderer wrote:To be fair to me, I think I said I would think of myself as a passport-pimp if I had multiple citizenships, although I phrased it quite badly. Blame the San Miguel..!
Apologies anyway if I offended!
That's how I see it. The world is so much smaller, and if you are going to be living abroad, it just makes sense to me. I plan to apply for Irish citizenship as soon as I'm eligible to do so.This is to illustrate that having many citizenships is not a question of loyalty: it's a practical question.
The British government places no restrictions on how many other citizenships you may hold. However other governments can and do place restrictions.SMOOTH OPERATOR wrote:guys im a bit confused haw many nationality is one allowed to have according to the british immigration or nationality law.
secondly, is it wrong to be in possesion of more than 1 nationality passport when travelling as long as they are all righfilly urs
Thanks for ur time guys
There is no restriction in British nationality law on the number of citizenships a British citizen my hold. (There are separate requirements for some of the other other classes of British national.) The laws of some other countries (but not all by any means) seek to minimise dual/multiple citizenship in some or all circumstances.SMOOTH OPERATOR wrote:guys im a bit confused haw many nationality is one allowed to have according to the british immigration or nationality law.
secondly, is it wrong to be in possesion of more than 1 nationality passport when travelling as long as they are all righfilly urs
Thanks for ur time guys
Have you ever lived in the United Kingdom or a British overseas territory?Richard66 wrote:. As I'm British by descent, our children would not be British
Not true. If you have spent 5 years in the U.S., including 2 years after the age of 14, then they will be Americans too.as we don't live in the US they won't be Americans
A propos that post and one of its main points, nationality and citizenship matters are determined by individual EU countries, so in general as long as both/all of the EU countries involved allow dual/multiple citizenship there is no reason why a person cannot be a citizen of more than one EU country. (Some countries in the EU do, or did, have laws restricting joint citizenship with each other, but that is, or was, a separate matter from their EU membership. And of course some EU countries have laws that aim to restrict dual citizenship as much as possible - for example, Denmark.)global gypsy wrote:Interesting posting on triple_citizenship
Even Denmark doesn't go quite as far as it could do. For example, children born dual Danish/other at birth (eg some children born to Danish parents in the United Kingdom are dual Danish/British) there is no requirement on the child to renounce British citizenship to keep Danish citizenship as an adult.Christophe wrote: A propos that post and one of its main points, nationality and citizenship matters are determined by individual EU countries, so in general as long as both/all of the EU countries involved allow dual/multiple citizenship there is no reason why a person cannot be a citizen of more than one EU country. (Some countries in the EU do, or did, have laws restricting joint citizenship with each other, but that is, or was, a separate matter from their EU membership. And of course some EU countries have laws that aim to restrict dual citizenship as much as possible - for example, Denmark.)