˜yÐÄvlog

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dual citizenship

[ doo-uhl sit-uh-zuhn-ship, -suhn-, dyoo- ]

noun

  1. Also called du·al na·tion·al·i·ty [doo, -, uh, l nash-, uh, -, nal, -i-tee, dyoo, -]. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  2. citizenship of both a state and a nation, in nations consisting of a federation of states, as the U.S.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dual citizenship1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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I had to give up my Indian citizenship in order to get it; there's no dual citizenship allowed between the two countries.

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China does not recognise dual citizenship and takes a tough stance on drug crimes.

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He estimates that around 250,000 diaspora Koreans around the world unwittingly have dual citizenship because of the law.

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Then in 2020, the Constitutional Court sided with an 17-year-old Korean American student who argued that the 2005 law placed disproportionate burdens on diaspora Koreans and violated their basic rights — namely the freedom to choose occupations that forbade dual citizenship, such as working on a Navy nuclear submarine.

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The 2005 law had been in effect eight years when Chun got his first call about it — from a young Korean American whose scholarship offer to a South Korean university had been canceled after his dual citizenship status came to light.

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