Citizenship dilemma

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Nov 3rd 2013, 10:03 am

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Re: Citizenship dilemma

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Originally Posted by martinbkk

I think it is important to understand the very real differences between citizenship and nationality. As has been said nationality is essentially inherited whereas citizenship can be gained. Gaining more than one citizenship (dual or multiple) is generally not acceptable to most countries. It would be somewhat difficult to have more than dual nationality!

While there is a legal distinction between nationality and citizenship - there are six classes of British nationality for instance, but only one conveys British citizenship - it's not the distinction you're making. Most nationals of a country are also citizens of any given country but not always. However both can be inherited or granted.