Re: OT: What is the maximum number of citizenships someone can have?

Does that mean that essentially you can go around telling governments that
you have renounced while in fact amassing a veritable armada of passports?!
I'm quite shocked by the laxity.

Eugene

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM, deinx nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...>
> wrote:
> > and some countries
> > require an oath of allegiance for citizenship which could nullify
> > the ability to obtain citizenship in some other country.
>
> I listed those as "jealous" in my OP. US naturalization oath requires
> you to renounce all other citizenships.
>
> However, some places ("unrenounceable", e.g. Ireland) don't recognize
> that oath unless you do it in front of their people - so in this case,
> US thinks you're just a US citizen and Ireland thinks you're dual
> citizen. (This is why I count this situation as worth only 1.5
> citizenships - the Irish citizenship is only half recognized.)
>
> Japan is more jealous - they require born citizens to renounce other
> citizenships at 20-21 (IIRC) or lose their Japanese one. Again, those
> others might not consider that renunciation meaningful...
>
> > Yes, you can renounce US citizenship but they don't consider it
> > valid unless it's done while out of the country.
>
> IIRC, US (and Ireland, and others) don't count renunciations unless
> done in front of their own consular officials. Those can be found
> in-country too, just not in very many places. (SF has psuedo ones, DC
> has the real thing.)
>
> - Sai
>

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