After giving up original citizenship one day you wish to visit your parents. What if you don't meet visa requirements?
But if one does not give up original citizenship, e.g., land rented from the government, at divorce or inheritance, one has no right to rent.
So we see it is not for some patriotic issue for which one gives up original citizenship these days, but instead usually to apply for land, loans, cell phones, etc.
One one hand pushing for a refugee asylum law, on the other creating more refugees.
Check the statistics of what groups dare to naturalize. Compare the US.
I don't understand how you Taiwanese think it's only natural to have so many US dual citizenships, but when we want one of yours, you tell us to give up our original citizenship first.
What a waste for both people and government. Just makes lots of red tape. The number of citizenships Taiwanese can have is however not limited.
To Taiwanese, dual citizenship is as common as owning a pet. They only get in trouble occasionally when then becoming legislator with it. Prominent Taiwanese have dual citizenships, but foreign spouses are to obediently play their roles as moms of Taiwanese sons. By Article 9 of the Nationality Law they must give up original citizenship (so that they won't be able to easily run away back to their parents if the relationship with their Taiwanese husbands doesn't work out!)
The same obligations: legislators and foreign spouses must relinquish other citizenships; however they don't get the same rights in return.
Dozens of organizations argue that unless it ends the discriminatory process by which foreign spouses can obtain citizenship, Taiwan will be undeserving of the UN.
These rules make a mockery of the fact that many Taiwanese possess citizenship of other countries
Ideas can be forwarded to Legislator Xu Zhongxiong's office.
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