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raikal wrote:After naturalization, can I go for Right of Abode and get the sticker on Indian passport ?
Is that allowed according Indian Nationality act. What confuses me is to Right of Abode we first need to be naturalized thus by losing Indian nationality.
I have seen few people doing this but do not know if that is legal !
Thanks
lemess wrote:I suspect that any request to put a right of abode endorsement that derives from british nationality on an indian passport will be rejected by the home office as I am pretty sure they are aware that India does not allow dual nationality which means that a british citizen cannot possess a valid Indian passport.
The Indian constitution expressly rules out citizenship of any other nation for Indian nationals. A right of abode sticker that derives from british citizenship on an Indian passport indicates the simultaneous holding of another citizenship in addition to the Indian one - which is impossible. Either the sticker or the passport would have to be invalid by definition.However it is possible for an Indian citizen to have acquired British citizenship at birth and in that circumstance a Right of Abode stamp could be placed on an Indian passport.
If someone is born in India to a UK born or naturalised British parent, then they are a British citizen by descent *automatically* and no application for citizenship by registration is normally required.lemess wrote: An Indian citizen cannot acquire british citizenship at birth and remain an Indian citizen. He may have an entitlement to british citizenship but as soon as he chooses to exercise it by registration, he would cease to be an Indian citizen and his Indian passport would be invalid.
lemess wrote:Interesting. The application form for a new indian passport says :
I hereby declare that ________________________________ born in UK has not applied for or acquired U.K. citizenship / travel document.
Should I approach the British authorities for such a travel document, I undertake to inform the High Commission of India, London
immediately so that Indian travel document may be withdrawn.
Implying that one could simultaneously have British and Indian citizenship as long as one does not apply for a british travel document. The issue is whether the right of abode sticker counts as a travel document. If not it seems that one can effectively be a dual citizen of the UK and India in this situation - as long as one does not apply for a UK passport.
I was not aware of that !
A government having objections to dual nationality doesn't have to expend time and resources to find out whether an individual has acquired another citizenship.Dawie wrote:Don't you think you're giving the Indian government too much credit by thinking they will actually even find out about your British citizenship? .....
----Do you honestly think they have the time and the resources to find out that you've aquired the citizenship of another country? I don't think so.
Dawie wrote:Yes, South Africa has this requirement too. However they only require a letter from the Home Office stating that you have not taken up British Citizenship IF you have been in the UK for more than 5 years (or 3 years if you are married to a British citizen). However, if you *lose* your passport, they will have no way of knowing how long you have been in the UK anyway, so it's kind of a stupid requirement. You could just simply lie and say that you were on holiday when you lost your passport and that would be that.