WISP Position paper
(Assignment 2)
Introduction:
Dual citizenship means that you are legally recognized as a citizen of your home country and another country. Countries like India, China, Saudi Arabia, Austria and Singapore do not recognize dual citizenship. Which means, acquiring new citizenship of another country will lead to automatic loss of home country’s citizenship status of the aforementioned countries.
Whereas developed countries that allowed dual nationality such as U.S.A, U.K., Canada, Switzerland and Australia. (Citizenship Laws of the World)
There are several ways of becoming citizens of more than one country. One way to obtain citizenship in a foreign country is through investment of large sums of money. This often grants …show more content…
The first and the main reason is that you don’t have to live at the mercy of one government. Most countries own the passports of their citizens, people don’t own their passport, and their country owns their passport. The government can give it to you and can take away from you without questions asked. For instance, in the case of Edward Snowden, he bought a plane ticket in Hong Kong to Moscow. He had a U.S. passport. But the moment he arrives at Moscow, his passport was nullified the moment he landed in Moscow Airport. This happened to him, this could also happen to all of …show more content…
Singapore has little natural resources and has many immigrants. Being a small country with a very short history, little heritage linkages beyond the past century. It is also a multi-racial, cultural & religion little red dot, so there is no natural heritage or loyalty to this small piece of land, unlike countries like Korea, Japan, or Norway. There is nothing better than a nation full of committed and loyal citizens in order for a nation to progress. The most ideal way is for them to have single citizenship. Without it Singapore would just be another place of landmark, resort or Promised Land especially for the rich and
(Assignment 2)
Introduction:
Dual citizenship means that you are legally recognized as a citizen of your home country and another country. Countries like India, China, Saudi Arabia, Austria and Singapore do not recognize dual citizenship. Which means, acquiring new citizenship of another country will lead to automatic loss of home country’s citizenship status of the aforementioned countries.
Whereas developed countries that allowed dual nationality such as U.S.A, U.K., Canada, Switzerland and Australia. (Citizenship Laws of the World)
There are several ways of becoming citizens of more than one country. One way to obtain citizenship in a foreign country is through investment of large sums of money. This often grants …show more content…
The first and the main reason is that you don’t have to live at the mercy of one government. Most countries own the passports of their citizens, people don’t own their passport, and their country owns their passport. The government can give it to you and can take away from you without questions asked. For instance, in the case of Edward Snowden, he bought a plane ticket in Hong Kong to Moscow. He had a U.S. passport. But the moment he arrives at Moscow, his passport was nullified the moment he landed in Moscow Airport. This happened to him, this could also happen to all of …show more content…
Singapore has little natural resources and has many immigrants. Being a small country with a very short history, little heritage linkages beyond the past century. It is also a multi-racial, cultural & religion little red dot, so there is no natural heritage or loyalty to this small piece of land, unlike countries like Korea, Japan, or Norway. There is nothing better than a nation full of committed and loyal citizens in order for a nation to progress. The most ideal way is for them to have single citizenship. Without it Singapore would just be another place of landmark, resort or Promised Land especially for the rich and