Dual Citizenship

Ever since my mom got her Canadian citizenship restored and is now a dual Canadian-American I have looked up (on my different sites) about dual citizenship around the world. Some countries allow it, some have restrictions on it and others ban it completely.

One thing that is universal in the countries that allow dual citizenship is called The Master Nationality Rule of 1930. This means that if you have dual citizenship and are travelling to one of the countries that you are a citizen you have to enter that country with that country's passport. An example of this is: a Canadian-American must enter Canada on their Canadian passport and enter the United States on their American passport.

Countries that allow Unrestricted Dual Citizenship (with year it became legal):

- Belgium (2008), United Kingdom (1948), Finland (2003), Greece, Hungary, Sweden (2001), Serbia (2004) - doesn't include Kosovo Citizenship, Morocco, Barbados, Canada (1977), Israel (2002), Australia(2002), Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg (2009), Malta (2000), Portugal, Iceland (2003), United States (1952), Switzerland (1992), Brazil (1994), Mexico (1998), Iraq (2008), Philippines (2003), New Zealand (1949)

Countries that Restrict Dual Citizenship:

- Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, France, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Armenia, Norway, India, Taiwan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Peru, Macau, Hong Kong

Countries that Ban Dual Citizenship:

- Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, Liberia, China, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore

* I don't know why any country would not allow dual citizenship - especially since you have to enter each country on that countries' passport. Most of it is due to the country's history (ie many former Soviet Republics do not allow dual citizenship so that they citizens can not be a Russian citizen as well as a citizen of the other country - ie more Russian-Ukrainians living in the Ukraine holding a Russian passport and a Ukrainian passport.) I am just waiting on my Canadian documents so I will officially be a Canadian-American (or American-Canadian.)*