So if your parents have several citizenships by naturalisation or otherwise at the time of your birth, you might very well be born with three or more citizenships but you won't always have all of your grandparents' citizenships and you might not be able to transmit all of yours to your own children.
If you aren't born with multiple citizenships, the main way you could acquire others is through naturalisation. This brings some additional complications as the law sometimes explicitly specify that naturalisation is contingent on a willingness to integrate and make a life in the country. In a country like that, if it looks like you always intended to live elsewhere, your naturalisation could theoretically be reversed.
Most countries also only offer naturalisation after years of residence, require some knowledge of the local language and take a long time to process applications and even then it's rarely automatic, naturalisation might very well be denied. While there is nothing preventing you from doing that in several places, as a practical matter you won't be able to get more than a few citizenships that way in your lifetime. There is no limit, in theory or practice.
This thread on Flyertalk mentions several people with five citizenships, posits a case where a child born to a couple with three citizenships each would easily get 7, and goes on to speculate that with the right sets of parents it would be possible to acquire more than 9 at birth plus any more you'd care to accumulate during your lifetime.
There are still quite a few countries where you can become a citizen in less than 5 years, or even buy citizenship outright if you throw enough money at them.
The answers to the same question on Quora have a case of a person who actually has 8 citizenships and got rid of a 9th for tax reasons , and sketches out how you could end up with 10, 12 or 14!
Once past the age of 20 or so, simply maintaining a citizenship generally requires zero effort, once the bit is toggled it stays toggled short of say actively waging war against a country you're a citizen of.
However, citizenship does often incur obligations like tax, military service etc, which can make it a pain to stay in the good books of all your countries. As a simple example, if I'm a male Finnish citizen over 18 who hasn't completed their national service, I'll stay a citizen if I stay overseas, but I'll be arrested as a draft dodger if I return to the country. Just read this article about a man who has eight passports. Kitts, and Cape Verde. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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The concept of dual nationality means that a person is a national of two countries at the same time. Each country has its own nationality laws based on its own policy. Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. The second step is to determine how much diversification you want.
Considering your available options, deciding what you want and where you want to travel will help you figure out how many passports you need. If they use that and add one or two more through investment or naturalization, that would create a strong profile.
Beyond four it does get a little overbearing, but four is a good number to aim for. From my perspective, I like to be able to go on both sides.
A western country and an eastern country. There are also simple options where you can just donate money or buy real estate and get a passport quite quickly which will give you visa free travel to places like Europe and Southeast Asia. We had a gentleman come to us recently who has a big figure company. He gave up his US citizenship and was very cautious of his profile as he wanted to be in good graces with everybody. Maybe get one, then get a European passport or a citizenship through your marriage or family.
I had a British friend who was marrying an Armenian woman. An Armenian passport was a good passport for him. He can easily travel visa-free to Russia. It has a different profile with different offerings. When I was going through my expatriation process , I was in the process of getting another passport that would fill in some of the gaps of places I wanted to travel.
I was glad I had taken advantage of all the opportunities over the years to collect the different passports that were available to me. Once you have two or three different options, you can make a better decision about that.
You could get a citizenship from a place like St. Kitts, Dominica, or St. Now they know that any day they want to, they can. They have that option. He could use his Canadian passport to show up in the US whenever he wanted. Analyze your mix and determine which passports you want to keep. Beyond diversification and protecting your financial and personal freedom to travel and exist in the world, ask where you want to live. This speaks to your personal desires and choices. A residence visa is a good place to start when considering places that you like.
But only citizenship guarantees that you can live in a place. The solution is to look for where you want to live and secure it with a citizenship. It might not be the best place in terms of taxation, but you would be able to live happily somewhere in the EU. I also recommend opening up your mind to other options. You may like a place like Armenia , Georgia or Malaysia. Someone came to me recently and said that he wanted to live in Malta so that he could live in Europe.
I let him know that he could first get a residence permit to live in Europe for much less and then he could travel and get a better idea of where he really wanted to live. The guy saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and was able to make a better-informed decision.
Where do I like?
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