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Legal student here. To answer your question - current international human rights treaties / laws prevent revocation of citizenship (even naturalized citizenship

Legal student here. To answer your question - current international human rights treaties / laws prevent revocation of citizenship (even naturalized citizenship) if that would leave the person stateless. Edit: and yes, India, only allows single-citizenship. Accepting U.S. citizenship automatically results in the loss of Indian citizenship.

raverbashing 8y ago
"Automatic" is not always so automatic. Not sure about India, but in other countries this "automatic revocation" is neither automatic nor permanent (believe it or not) Also, given it is not a requirement by the US that the recipient give up their other citizenships, they don't care about the other country knowing about it
- kamaal 8y ago
  >>Not sure about India Not had this experience to comment on this first hand. But as an Indian, I guess they ask you to surrender your Passport at the Indian embassy, and then ask you to apply for a PIO(Person of Indian origin) card.
  - dorfsmay 8y ago
    How does the Indian government know that a person has another citizenship?
    - kamaal 8y ago
      I think one way is taxes. But I guess there will be some sharing of databases. On the other hand, I think, putting your US citizenship on risk for maintaining a illegal status would not make sense for a lot of people.
    - davchana 8y ago
      One way is when we enter India at borders, they check out exit dates in system. Usually people who are still indians would have US's some kind of visa. US Citizens will not be able to show any US visa. There are heavy fines for not self surrendering the indian passport after US Citizenship within 6 months.
- npsomaratna 8y ago
  From what I've read, the Citizenship Act of India specifies that any citizen of India who obtains citizenship of any other country immediately ceases to be a citizen of India. At that point, it is his or her duty to surrender their passport to the nearest Indian mission abroad. I guess that one could ignore this and keep on using their Indian passport - but doing so would be fraud and criminal misrepresentation.
  - mavelikara 8y ago
    My Indian passport says: WARNING If holder acquires Nationality of another country, he should Surrender This Passport forthwith to the nearest Indian Mission/Post Abroad. Un- authorized possession of this Document shall Constitute an Offence Punishable under the Indian Passport Act 1967
borncrusader 8y ago
India has a provision for previous citizens to apply to, called the OCI. You can reside in India, but you give up the right to vote and own agriculture land.

raverbashing 8y ago

"Automatic" is not always so automatic. Not sure about India, but in other countries this "automatic revocation" is neither automatic nor permanent (believe it or not) Also, given it is not a requirement by the US that the recipient give up their other citizenships, they don't care about the other country knowing about it

kamaal 8y ago
>>Not sure about India Not had this experience to comment on this first hand. But as an Indian, I guess they ask you to surrender your Passport at the Indian embassy, and then ask you to apply for a PIO(Person of Indian origin) card.
- dorfsmay 8y ago
  How does the Indian government know that a person has another citizenship?
  - kamaal 8y ago
    I think one way is taxes. But I guess there will be some sharing of databases. On the other hand, I think, putting your US citizenship on risk for maintaining a illegal status would not make sense for a lot of people.
  - davchana 8y ago
    One way is when we enter India at borders, they check out exit dates in system. Usually people who are still indians would have US's some kind of visa. US Citizens will not be able to show any US visa. There are heavy fines for not self surrendering the indian passport after US Citizenship within 6 months.
npsomaratna 8y ago
From what I've read, the Citizenship Act of India specifies that any citizen of India who obtains citizenship of any other country immediately ceases to be a citizen of India. At that point, it is his or her duty to surrender their passport to the nearest Indian mission abroad. I guess that one could ignore this and keep on using their Indian passport - but doing so would be fraud and criminal misrepresentation.
- mavelikara 8y ago
  My Indian passport says: WARNING If holder acquires Nationality of another country, he should Surrender This Passport forthwith to the nearest Indian Mission/Post Abroad. Un- authorized possession of this Document shall Constitute an Offence Punishable under the Indian Passport Act 1967

borncrusader 8y ago

India has a provision for previous citizens to apply to, called the OCI. You can reside in India, but you give up the right to vote and own agriculture land.