should anyone have

[wilk1149]

Dual citizenship.

[the_hawk*]

do you know what it is and how it works?

[lurker172602]

I think from your question you are not a migrant, and don't understand what it is to hold two countries in your heart. It is possible to do so without favouring one over the other

[idlewhile]

Thanks to criminal idiots and muslim terrorists that option looks like it will be gone under the new terror laws.

As for holding 2 countries close to your heart?  a  dual nationality passport doesn't do that, has nothing to do with it, nothing to stop you from holding another country to heart.

[donnashuggy]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Dual citizenship.

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Yes, my husband and children have both. It is great for travel and working abroad.

[far*canal*]

Yes! I would love to have the ability to travel between my home country, and the country that has become my second home. I'm also leaving a child in this country to continue with their studies. The ability to come back and forth between the two to visit said child, when the time comes without having to worry about visas would be wonderful. I love where I am now, and am amazed at how wrong perception could be. If I could live here forever, I would. That doesn't take away from my love of Australia by any stretch. I just now have two countries that have a piece of my heart.

[cherry*135]

Are you still with Defence force far-canal?

Nothing wrong with dual citizenship... not all countries allow it though.

I am an Australian citizen with a New Zealand passport (recently expired so will get an Aust one next. No point getting both as we can travel freely between these two countries on either).

[icyfroth]

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Dual citizenship.

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Technically no. You should have allegiance to the country of your birth and ancestry. But with all the migration and displacement of ppl since, well, at least WW1, it's hard for ppl to seperate their loyalities for one or another. And dual citizenship is handy to have, I imagine.

I think, suffice it to say, if you have loyalty for your country of origin and contempt for the country you have settled in, to the point where you actively engage in activities that are damaging to it, you should have no regret when you are stripped of your adopted country's citizenship. Especially when you've only gone through the ceremony in order to be able to claim it's many benefits.

[vicr3000]

Especially when you've only gone through the ceremony in order to be able to claim it's many benefits.


LOL

Well said

[lyne-flyn]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Dual citizenship.

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Technically no. You should have allegiance to the country of your birth and ancestry. But with all the migration and displacement of ppl since, well, at least WW1, it's hard for ppl to seperate their loyalities for one or another. And dual citizenship is handy to have, I imagine.

I think, suffice it to say, if you have loyalty for your country of origin and contempt for the country you have settled in, to the point where you actively engage in activities that are damaging to it, you should have no regret when you are stripped of your adopted country's citizenship. Especially when you've only gone through the ceremony in order to be able to claim it's many benefits.

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My partner has been here since he was 2 years old...he was born in a Displaced Person Camp in Germany....his parents are Polish and he holds both an Australian and an Polish passport.

He has been an Australian since he was very young and the only benefits he gets are a DVA pension...he is deaf due to an incident when he was in Vietnam in 1968...I think he has more than earned what he does get.