Timeline for Ukraine, dual citizenship & passport ownership
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| Aug 28, 2019 at 11:23 | comment | added | Mark Johnson | @nopassword1 Go to the Ukraine Embassy with your documentation and clarify the situation. They will probably issue a certificate of loss of Nationality. Clarify the National service issue. Have a certified copy of certificate made and take that with you if you travel to the Ukraine. If they consider you a Ukraine citizen, while inside Ukraine, that prevails! The 2nd country can only advise you, but not protect you. This is standard International law since the 1920's. | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 0:43 | answer | added | Roman Odaisky | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 9:30 | vote | accept | nopassport1 | ||
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:31 | comment | added | phoog | @Sneftel perhaps I misunderstand "application is being held" and "whether it's lawful for me to obtain a British passport" but it sounds to me like the case worker is of the opinion that if Ukraine law prohibits dual nationality then the case worker may not issue a British passport. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:25 | comment | added | Sneftel | @phoog reread my initial message. It doesn't sound like the case worker is refusing outright to issue the OP a passport. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:22 | comment | added | phoog | @Sneftel that's really none of the passport office's concern. It is not for the passport office to prevent a British citizen from exercising the right to travel on the off chance that doing so might have implications for another country's nationality law. If I were nopassport1 I would press the case worker to identify a passport office policy or UK law that prevents the issue of a passport in his circumstances. There won't be one. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | Sneftel | @phoog because the possession/use of a foreign passport is the main way a country would be able to detect if someone had acquired a second citizenship. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:09 | comment | added | phoog | @Sneftel why should the case worker be worried about that? At most, the worry should amount to a warning before naturalizing: "be careful to understand any implications that your naturalization may have for your existing nationality." I am aware of several countries that provide for automatic loss of citizenship on acquisition of another, and if Ukraine's law looks like any of those then OP has already lost his Ukrainian citizenship. On the other hand, if he has not already lost it on naturalization then acquiring a passport is unlikely to change that. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 20:36 | answer | added | Greg Hewgill | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:04 | comment | added | Sneftel | @MartinBonner It seems likely that the case worker is worried about the OP accidentally losing their birth citizenship. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 10:10 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | "does not know if Ukraine allows dual citizenship" - I am very surprised at this. The UK does allow dual citizenship, and doesn't care whether the other country (or countries) do or not. It is no part of the Home Office's job to enforce Ukrainian citizenship law. | |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 8:43 | history | asked | nopassport1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |