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Tangential question: Could a country force its citizenship to any person on the planet like that? ‘From now on, Mr X is now one of our citizen, with all the ta

• deleted 3y ago
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• vasac 3y ago
  For Serbia to collect taxes, one must live in the country for more than 180 days per year, so I doubt Woz should be worried.
• layer8 3y ago
  In principle yes, but other countries may not recognize it on the basis of human rights. Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality." So it should at least be possible to renounce such a citizenship. International law regarding nationality generally focuses on preventing statelessness, so there isn’t much on prohibiting additional citizenships.
• razakel 3y ago
  Yes. Iran does it. You can only apply to renounce it in person in Tehran. This obviously causes problems for critics of the regime.
• SergeAx 3y ago
  Of course not. A person should file a signed citizenship application, and then literally put a signature into their new passport.
• keiferski 3y ago
  In practice it works more like this: the state passes laws that deem anyone with X qualities is a citizen. Usually this means “born there” or “has parents born there.” This theoretically makes the person a citizen, even if they’ve never interacted or visited the country in any way.