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Chinese people living in Indonesia were also given the option of becoming Indonesian nationals, though only 60% of them chose to be Indonesian. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] The Constitution of 1950, which changed the government from a federation to a unitary state , called for the propagation of a new nationality law, maintaining the provisions of the Charter ...
The right to renounce Nigerian citizenship is established in May 29 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, which states that "any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his/her Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation", which the government is obliged to register except when ...
He travelled to Germany in June 1945 after the German surrender on a mission for the American Federation of Labor, and chose to renounce U.S. citizenship and resume his German citizenship so he could aid in reconstruction of Germany. He went on to become mayor of Hamburg in 1946. [37] June 1945: 1946: Too early Robert Brout: Scientist Jus soli ...
Indonesia does not recognise dual citizenship for adults, according to Indonesian law, as a child with two passports must choose one and renounce the other when they turn 18.
Denaturalization is the case in which citizenship or nationality is revoked by the state against the wishes of the citizen. In practice, there may not be a clear-cut distinction between non-consensual revocation and renunciation of citizenship.
He would renounce his U.S. citizenship, but after years of stress and campaigning, he refuses to pay the fee to do so. “There’s no question of me paying $2,350,” Lehagre says.
Citizenship can be lost involuntarily through denaturalization, also known as deprivation or forfeiture. A person might have their citizenship revoked in this way due to: Fraud in the naturalization process, including sham marriages; Failure to renounce another citizenship after having committed to doing so in a naturalization procedure
Mackenzie v. Hare, 239 U.S. 299 (1915), is a United States Supreme Court case that upheld Section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907, which dictated that all American women who voluntarily married a foreign alien renounced their American citizenship.