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Best of both worlds: Canada allows its immigrants to have dual citizenship; they can be Canadian citizens and still retain the citizenship of the country from which they came.(CITIZENSHIP--DUAL)
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Canada and the World Backgrounder
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December 1, 2006
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Not every country is as generous as Canada. Singapore does not allow dual citizenship. It requires citizenship applicants to give up their original citizenship. They have to go to their old country's embassy and renounce their original citizenship. Male applicants also have to do two years of national service in the armed forces, police, or civil defence.
Others that don't allow dual citizenship include: Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Norway, Peru, Syria, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Countries that do allow dual citizenship (about 90 of them) usually operate under the principle that you are a citizen of the country in which you live; any other ...
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Dion says dual citizenship his mother's gift
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323 words
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One on One: "Foreigners" have dual citizenship
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Dual citizenship cards to be issued from August
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Lawmakers debate dual citizenship
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......12-04-1998 Lawmakers debate dual citizenship Some parliamentarians of...expressed apprehensions over dual citizenship, saying this would make...Indian Origin here, the dual citizenship issues was one of the many...
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Overseas Tanzanians call for dual citizenship
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May 15, 2005 ;
277 words
...Overseas Tanzanians call for dual citizenship DAR ES SALAAM, May 15 (Xinhua...dollars once the country legalizes dual citizenship, a local newspaper said on Sunday...Tanzanians called for legalization of dual citizenship. "Many Tanzanians left the country...
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Long Awaited New Year's Gift; DUAL CITIZENSHIP AT LAST
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January 31, 2004 ;
533 words
......passed a bill to grant dual citizenship to people of Indian origin. The bill offers dual citizenship to people of Indian...the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Italy, the...reality of our lives, this dual citizenship will only bring us closer...India will not view this ...
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