tauphi

Someone will find out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E...ibility_crisis

percysmith

It'll depend how deep the Yankee White search goes. jamar is not an obvious dual national - he is a natural born citizen of the United States, and his parents are now either Green Card or US Citizens. Catching they were not US citizens at the time of his birth (and therefore Jamar may still have claim to being Chinese) is rather corner case.

The Australian parliamentarians were born overseas, so they were pretty obvious to catch.

percysmith

"Permanent resident" of Canada - it seems to work like "Permanent resident" of Australia https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visa...verseas-travel - has no permanence like ILR in the UK or ROA in HK. For Australia "permanent resident", if you aren't here for 5 years, you lose it.

Canadian and Australian "permanent resident" indicates no time limit on their stay in Canada/Australia. But, if they're not there (like Lamb's parents), they lose it.

percysmith

Oh OK, that's news. So someone on an Australian "permanent resident" visa (e.g. Subclass 801 for my wife) is treated differently from their (rough) US equivalent (e.g. K-3 + I-512 Advance Parole Summer Holidays... ).

This seems like a very substance over form exercise.

(P.S. that also means HK courts are consistent with NIA)

jamar

This and the fact that my passport has already had multiple Chinese visas on it due to the previous policy (or maybe more accurately, previous interpretations of the law) and that my parents have never applied for a CTD for me in the past would indicate that I couldn't be expected to know (and I still don't know for sure) I had that claim, is the way I see it. Going into politics or anything requiring a security clearance is off the table but there are certain other things where a potential claim that only arose due to changing interpretations of past law might slip by (basically, cases where having Chinese citizenship as well might invite additional questions but isn't an automatic "no").

Now I wonder how many other people are also revisiting this due to past assumptions (that dual citizenship wasn't possible or wasn't possible past age 18 and choosing to use your foreign passport and getting visas was seen as "making a choice").

YuropFlyer

Well, quite some countries force you to renounce your citizenship if you take up another one. Not THAT many countries allow dual citizenship, and even for those that due, quite some stringent rules apply.

Two countries in the world even have the audacy to tax you if you're living abroad. One is God's own country, Eritrea, the other is the failed states of "America". Or the other way around, I tend to mix them up.

narvik

It's not as uncommon/difficult as you make it out to be. I have quadruple citizenship.

NewbieRunner

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