Changing citizenship

[panda]

This question comes up to me as I was discussing about working overseas with some of my fellows. As nationalist I would, yet sometime I do envy other country for some reason. :p

Well, I can't decide it yet whether I want to change mine... except one of us did succeed in establishing a new country for INTJ, I'd say I change it right away. :thumbsup:

What do you guys think, would you change your citizen?

what would you like to be if you want to change it?

[ShaiGar]

If I was not going to run for prime minister I'd change my citizenship to NZ and EU Dual.
EU (through my father, British Passport) So I can travel in the EU, The Commonwealth and Allies
NZ (through an alliance) So I'm safe when I travel

[lei]

I'm a Chinese citizen, I think it's pointless to change my nationality if I had to get a visa to go back to China. I would only consider that if the Chinese government allows dual nationality. Having said that I would first and foremost consider myself a global citizen because we are living in an increasingly interdependent world.

[Santana28]

i think its pretty much impossible to get into europe being a non-EU citizen with no blood relations anywhere... isn't it?

I would *LOVE* to move to Germany or Australia or a number of other countries, but it is not nearly as easy to accomplish as it is here in America.

Anyone up for an arranged marriage? ;)

[ShaiGar]

sure, but only for as long as it takes for you to get citizenship. I want a prenup on my books and paintings though.

[Santana28]

sure, but only for as long as it takes for you to get citizenship. I want a prenup on my books and paintings though.

paintings? who told you i could paint? ;)

where do you live? i have a kid! you'd have to adopt him temporarily!

[MrEPenguin]

I don't have much if any attachment to my citizenship, but I wouldn't want to change it or give it up. I'd be willing to have multiple citizenships though. (mostly for ease of travel)

[panda]

I don't have much if any attachment to my citizenship, but I wouldn't want to change it or give it up. I'd be willing to have multiple citizenships though. (mostly for ease of travel)

Yeah double or triple will be nice...but so far I don't know any country that allowing us to have double (at least) citizenships.
It's so convenience to travel if we could have it.

[Jon]

I have United States and Australian citizenship, and I don't think I'd give them up for a different citizenship. Those are two fairly sweet pots to have my hands in. It really facilitates travel between the two countries.

I wouldn't mind somehow picking up a third, though!

[PillowSoup]

I have US and Thai citizenship. It's illegal on the thai side and I'm supposed to get rid of it in a year but no one I know has actually done that. The only reason I actually keep the Thai citizenship is because I need it to own land, the downside is that I now have to dodge military conscription in a few years.

[thod]

Probably the easiest way is to connect up with someone of the opposite gender from your target country via the net. You marry simply to gain dual nationality.

British citizenship is not so easy to get rid of.

All categories of British nationality can be renounced by a declaration made to the Home Secretary. A person ceases to be a British national on the date that the declaration of renunciation is registered by the Home Secretary. If a declaration is registered in the expectation of acquiring another citizenship, but one is not acquired within six months of the registration, it does not take effect and you are considered to have remained a British national.

Renunciations made to other authorities are invalid: e.g., a general renunciation made upon taking up U.S. citizenship.

There are provisions for the resumption of British citizenship or British overseas territories citizenship renounced for the purpose of gaining or retaining another citizenship. This can generally only be done once as a matter of entitlement. Further opportunities to resume British citizenship are discretionary.


So its easy to sign all the papers to get a new passport and retain your old, or just reapply. I guess they dint want people tortured in foreign jail cells being forced to renounce so that they can torture them in peace.

[Radamisto]

I am an anarchocapitalist an a cosmopolite, so I would have no problem changing my citizenship provided I considered it advantageous to me. Please notice: governments usually treat their own citizens like sheep and other government's citizens like precious books borrowed to them temporarily.

[tyrantofthought]

Not sure yet what I would change it to, but I definitely am not proud to be an American. It'd probably just be somewhere in Europe or Australia that I would live in in the future.