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In 2012, a Hong Kong-born man who had acquired Singaporean citizenship by registration while a minor filed a lawsuit regarding this requirement. [ 24 ] About 1,200 Singaporean citizens renounce their citizenship every year, a quarter of them naturalised citizens.
A native of Taishan, Guangdong, Chan moved to Hong Kong at age 14 before going on to university in Japan and then the U.S., where he naturalized as a U.S. citizen. [60] He moved to Taiwan in 1992 and then returned to Hong Kong in 1994. [61] He renounced U.S. citizenship in 2001 after being named a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [62 ...
Visa requirements for Indian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of India. As of 2025, Indian citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 57 countries and territories, ranking the Indian passport 85th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index, [1] down from 80th ...
1935 Nye–Lae Bill grants citizenship to veterans of World War I, including those from "Barred Zones". [48] [49] 1943 Magnuson Act: Resumption of naturalization rights to Chinese Americans and limited immigration permitted from China. 1945 War Brides Act temporarily lifts the ban on Asian immigration for spouses and adopted children of service ...
[172] [173] Special exceptions apply to women who lost citizenship under the Expatriation Act of 1907 by marrying a non-citizen, and to people who lost citizenship through service in Allied armed forces during World War II: such people can obtain special LPR status (under SC-1 and SC-2 visas) and apply for renaturalization without any required ...
The San Francisco Board of Election Commissioners rejected her application because in August 1909, Ethel MacKenzie married Scottish singer Peter Gordon MacKenzie. Since her husband was a British citizen, the marriage was deemed a voluntary renunciation of Ethel MacKenzie's American citizenship under the Expatriation Act of 1907. [2]
Any Indian citizen who permanently settles in Pakistan or Bangladesh, or who voluntarily acquires citizenship of another country at any time automatically loses Indian citizenship. [92] Between 2015 and 2019, about 670,000 people lost their Indian citizenship either through renunciation or automatic loss after acquiring a foreign nationality. [93]
Failure to reaffirm one's citizenship by a certain age (often an age between 18 and 30 years old) Failure to revoke other citizenships by a certain age (e.g. 22 years old in the case of Japan) Such loss of citizenship may take place without the knowledge of the affected citizen, and indeed without the knowledge of the government.