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In those cases, if SA doesn't care, is to renounce the SA citizenship in front of German authorities and just get a new SA passport later. A lot of people with
by hef19898 4y ago
In those cases, if SA doesn't care, is to renounce the SA citizenship in front of German authorities and just get a new SA passport later. A lot of people with German and Turkish passports (also technically not allowed) do so. Trick is to not carry both at the same time. Or to apply for security clearances.
Edit: There are countries in which you cannot loose citizenship, Afghanistan comes to mind as of a couple of years ago.
- brmgb 4y agoYes, it's mostly fine doing that. The German law is incredibly stupid in the context of international law anyway. The issue is that citizenship is stricly a country own prerogative outside of the agreement not to make people stateless. So Germany is free to tell you they won't give you the German nationality if you don't renounce your other ones and is free to strip you of your German nationality if they find you have another one. Meanwhile, the other country can still consider you a citizen if it wants to. That's its sovereign right and it doesn't have to agree to you asking not to be considered one.
- Semaphor 4y agoI think we’ll be fine just waiting ;) And also, SA is also a bit weird about dual citizenship, you have to ask for permission first before getting another, and can’t even start the process of getting another before getting permission, which takes about a year. And apparently they almost never deny permission… Yet if you get another without asking them, you instantly lose your SA one.