"And then you have situations like Japan, which refuses to recognize dual citizenship. "
Yes. My aunt had to officially give up her NZ citizenship when she moved to live in Sri Lanka with her husband. When they decided they wanted to come back to NZ again, she asked our bureaucrats if it was possible to get it back, but they laughed and explained that it didn't matter what she said to Sri Lanka, she actually *couldn't* give up her NZ citizenship that way, because we wouldn't recognise it.
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Date: 16 May 2010 11:10 pm (UTC)Yes. My aunt had to officially give up her NZ citizenship when she moved to live in Sri Lanka with her husband. When they decided they wanted to come back to NZ again, she asked our bureaucrats if it was possible to get it back, but they laughed and explained that it didn't matter what she said to Sri Lanka, she actually *couldn't* give up her NZ citizenship that way, because we wouldn't recognise it.