This map makes quite a lot of simplifications, because aside from the countries that simply allow dual citizenship, most countries have a lot of extra rules and special cases that don’t fit into neat categories. Anyway here’s an elaboration for anyone curious:
– Latvia also allows dual citizenship with countries in NATO, EFTA, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. Germany will generally allow dual citizenship with third countries with special permission or if obtained at birth. I grouped them because they have a similar approach to dual citizenship.
– The Netherlands and Slovakia also allow dual citizenship by naturalization via marriage.
– In Austria you can retain your Austrian citizenship while obtaining another citizenship if you request permission from the Austrian government before doing so. The same is also true for Germany for non-EU citizenships.
– Estonia doesn’t actually allow dual citizenship, but since people of Estonian descent cannot lose Estonian citizenship, this is the de facto situation.
– Spain has this concept of “dormant citizenship” in which Spanish citizens naturalizing in Iberoamerican countries do not lose Spanish citizenship but lose their status as Spanish citizen until they return to Spain. Countries from Iberoamerican countries may also not need to renounce their old citizenship in order to become a Spanish citizen. Sephardi Jews are permanently granted Spanish nationality regardless of their other citizenships.
– For Russia and Turkey, dual citizenship is allowed but you must report your other citizenships to the responsible administration.
– Bosnia and Herzegovina allow dual citizenship for Croatia, Serbia and Sweden
– Since I also included some Eurasian/Middle Eastern countries, Israel and Armenia allow dual citizenship unless you enter certain government positions, in which case you must renounce your other citizenships.
– Currently, Ukraine ignores any other citizenships held by Ukrainian citizens. There was an attempt to criminalize dual citizenship in 2014, but the current effort is to allow dual citizenship with EU countries unless they hold government positions, and explicitly forbid dual citizenship with Russia. This is in the future, not the current reality in Ukraine.
– Funnily enough, Andorra explicitly forbids dual citizenship, but Spain recognizes dual citizenship with Andorra.
**Some clarification on my terminology**
– “Dual citizenship by birth” means that a child born of parents with different nationalities may be able to inherit one or more citizenships from the parents.
Also here are my sources in case people wanted to look further:
For gaps in some countries I just looked up the status according to their embassy websites.
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Spain should be orange as only recognize dual citizenship with excolonies, Portugal and very recently France.
>Germany will generally allow dual citizenship with third countries with special permission or if obtained at birth.
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Yup, and if you can’t renounce the other citizenship or can only do so with great difficulty, such as Iranian citizenship. Or some special cases, e.g. the “Wiedergutmachungseinbürgerung” (Naturalization on grounds of restitution of German citizenship for victims of Nazi persecution and their descendants), which also allows people outside the EU+Switzerland, such as Israelis, to have German and Israeli citizenship.
Dual citizenship should be allowed between all the countries of the EU at the very least.
If we want workers and companies to see the EU as one labour market then it will be much easier if barriers to citizenship are removed.
Dual citizens represent <3
Montenegro – Dual citizenship not allowed for people born after 2007*
I know quite a few people who have dual citizenship. They are just barred from some things (for example one popular politican was blocked from applying for the presidential election a few days ago because he had both Serbian and Montenegrin citizenship)
How about quadruple citizenship?
So to make things clear about Ukraine. As the OP said, Ukrainian government just ignores any other citizenships held by Ukrainian citizens. But there is more to it.
Obtaining another citizenship willingly by an adult could be a basis for termination of your Ukrainian citizenship.
This decision could be made only by the President. As Zelenskyy has done to some our oligarchs and deputies.
There are a lot of people with dual citizenship here, for example with russian one, who obtained it on russian occupied territories after 2014. Or in Transcarpathia region, where Hungary gave its passports to ethnic Hungarians (which is not really a good thing to do, if they wanted to maintain good relations with us, but that whole another story).
No president will probably ever terminate citizenships of these whole groups of people, but that is just my opinion.
I’m pretty sure portuguese people can get Spanish dual citizenship in 1-2 years. I read about that a few days ago.
Poland allows dual citizenship but you are basically treated as a Pole only. I mean, if you are Polish but also American, if they arrest you, you cannot start whining that you are an American and therefore demand to speak with US embassy representative – you will not be treated as American because you are a Polish citizen. Obviously, the practice may vary but in theory the law is explicit about that.
Also, Poles are required to own a valid national ID. If you come to Poland and then try to leave by crossing a Schengen border (even if you present a foreign passport/ID) and the border guards find out in their systems that you are a citizen of Poland and you don’t have a valid Polish ID they may forbid you from leaving the country until you apply and receive a new valid Polish ID. [Source: polish border guards website](https://www.strazgraniczna.pl/pl/niezbednik-podroznego/obywatele-rp-z-podwojny/3262,Obywatele-RP-z-podwojnym-obywatelstwem.html).
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**Disclaimer**
This map makes quite a lot of simplifications, because aside from the countries that simply allow dual citizenship, most countries have a lot of extra rules and special cases that don’t fit into neat categories. Anyway here’s an elaboration for anyone curious:
– Latvia also allows dual citizenship with countries in NATO, EFTA, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. Germany will generally allow dual citizenship with third countries with special permission or if obtained at birth. I grouped them because they have a similar approach to dual citizenship.
– The Netherlands and Slovakia also allow dual citizenship by naturalization via marriage.
– In Austria you can retain your Austrian citizenship while obtaining another citizenship if you request permission from the Austrian government before doing so. The same is also true for Germany for non-EU citizenships.
– Estonia doesn’t actually allow dual citizenship, but since people of Estonian descent cannot lose Estonian citizenship, this is the de facto situation.
– Spain has this concept of “dormant citizenship” in which Spanish citizens naturalizing in Iberoamerican countries do not lose Spanish citizenship but lose their status as Spanish citizen until they return to Spain. Countries from Iberoamerican countries may also not need to renounce their old citizenship in order to become a Spanish citizen. Sephardi Jews are permanently granted Spanish nationality regardless of their other citizenships.
– For Russia and Turkey, dual citizenship is allowed but you must report your other citizenships to the responsible administration.
– Bosnia and Herzegovina allow dual citizenship for Croatia, Serbia and Sweden
– Since I also included some Eurasian/Middle Eastern countries, Israel and Armenia allow dual citizenship unless you enter certain government positions, in which case you must renounce your other citizenships.
– Currently, Ukraine ignores any other citizenships held by Ukrainian citizens. There was an attempt to criminalize dual citizenship in 2014, but the current effort is to allow dual citizenship with EU countries unless they hold government positions, and explicitly forbid dual citizenship with Russia. This is in the future, not the current reality in Ukraine.
– Funnily enough, Andorra explicitly forbids dual citizenship, but Spain recognizes dual citizenship with Andorra.
**Some clarification on my terminology**
– “Dual citizenship by birth” means that a child born of parents with different nationalities may be able to inherit one or more citizenships from the parents.
Also here are my sources in case people wanted to look further:
– [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship)
– [https://www.dualcitizenshipreport.org/](https://www.dualcitizenshipreport.org/)
For gaps in some countries I just looked up the status according to their embassy websites.
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Spain should be orange as only recognize dual citizenship with excolonies, Portugal and very recently France.
>Germany will generally allow dual citizenship with third countries with special permission or if obtained at birth.
​
Yup, and if you can’t renounce the other citizenship or can only do so with great difficulty, such as Iranian citizenship. Or some special cases, e.g. the “Wiedergutmachungseinbürgerung” (Naturalization on grounds of restitution of German citizenship for victims of Nazi persecution and their descendants), which also allows people outside the EU+Switzerland, such as Israelis, to have German and Israeli citizenship.
Dual citizenship should be allowed between all the countries of the EU at the very least.
If we want workers and companies to see the EU as one labour market then it will be much easier if barriers to citizenship are removed.
Dual citizens represent <3
Montenegro – Dual citizenship not allowed for people born after 2007*
I know quite a few people who have dual citizenship. They are just barred from some things (for example one popular politican was blocked from applying for the presidential election a few days ago because he had both Serbian and Montenegrin citizenship)
How about quadruple citizenship?
So to make things clear about Ukraine. As the OP said, Ukrainian government just ignores any other citizenships held by Ukrainian citizens. But there is more to it.
Obtaining another citizenship willingly by an adult could be a basis for termination of your Ukrainian citizenship.
This decision could be made only by the President. As Zelenskyy has done to some our oligarchs and deputies.
There are a lot of people with dual citizenship here, for example with russian one, who obtained it on russian occupied territories after 2014. Or in Transcarpathia region, where Hungary gave its passports to ethnic Hungarians (which is not really a good thing to do, if they wanted to maintain good relations with us, but that whole another story).
No president will probably ever terminate citizenships of these whole groups of people, but that is just my opinion.
I’m pretty sure portuguese people can get Spanish dual citizenship in 1-2 years. I read about that a few days ago.
Poland allows dual citizenship but you are basically treated as a Pole only. I mean, if you are Polish but also American, if they arrest you, you cannot start whining that you are an American and therefore demand to speak with US embassy representative – you will not be treated as American because you are a Polish citizen. Obviously, the practice may vary but in theory the law is explicit about that.
Also, Poles are required to own a valid national ID. If you come to Poland and then try to leave by crossing a Schengen border (even if you present a foreign passport/ID) and the border guards find out in their systems that you are a citizen of Poland and you don’t have a valid Polish ID they may forbid you from leaving the country until you apply and receive a new valid Polish ID. [Source: polish border guards website](https://www.strazgraniczna.pl/pl/niezbednik-podroznego/obywatele-rp-z-podwojny/3262,Obywatele-RP-z-podwojnym-obywatelstwem.html).