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> I believe Germany makes you renounce your old citizenship in most (not all) cases to gain German citizenship, but you have it listed as allowing it? Same for
by raarts 8y ago
> I believe Germany makes you renounce your old citizenship in most (not all) cases to gain German citizenship, but you have it listed as allowing it?
Same for The Netherlands[1]
[1] https://www.government.nl/topics/dutch-nationality/dual-nationality https://www.government.nl/topics/dutch-nationality/dual-nati...
- mtmail 8y agoYou can keep the previous citizenship (and thus have two) if you're a citizen of another EU country or Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Dual_citizenship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Dual_ci...
- jolmg 8y agoIt doesn't seem that OP takes in such conditions into the dual citizenship data. Would be nice if he did.
- davedx 8y agoNot quite. There are exceptions: I got to keep my British citizenship because my wife is Dutch.
- kbouck 8y agoI can confirm this. According to my Netherlands immigration lawyer I can acquire Dutch citizenship because my wife is a Dutch citizen, without needing to renounce my US citizenship.
- matttproud 8y agoMy guess is that acquisition-by-marriage falls under a different rules category than vanilla naturalization by time and integration and learning the civics and language, which is the pathway an adult would have to take moving to a place where there was no bloodline binding.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoIF you gain Dutch citizenship by descent, you don't have to renounce your first citizenship.