didds
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I picked up on this shenanigans today./..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41826422
For those based in Oz, maybe you know a bit more and can clarify something for me?
I get the thing about dual citizenship meaning you can't run for Aus parliament.
BUT
AIUI you can't actually "lose" British/UK citizenship. The British/UK do not recognise a "rejection" of its citizenship and there are no processes in place therefore to enact such a thing.
So if somebody had dual Aus and UK citizenship... they could never ever stand for Aus parliament because they can't lose their UK citizenship status.
As an extreme this could be a baby born in the UK that then moved with its British parents (work visas etc) to Aus within a very very short time. It would need its own passport to travel so wold have a British passport and thus be in all intents and purposes a British/Uk citizen. It then lives the rest of its life in Aus and gets Aus citizenship as soon as it can because it identifies itself as Australian (understandably). It still however has a British./Uk citizenship - for ever.
Thus it could never stand for Aus parliament - even though its entire cognitive life has been as an Australian and it was only ever British for a few months asa baby (or even weeks etc ...)
?????????
didds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41826422
For those based in Oz, maybe you know a bit more and can clarify something for me?
I get the thing about dual citizenship meaning you can't run for Aus parliament.
BUT
AIUI you can't actually "lose" British/UK citizenship. The British/UK do not recognise a "rejection" of its citizenship and there are no processes in place therefore to enact such a thing.
So if somebody had dual Aus and UK citizenship... they could never ever stand for Aus parliament because they can't lose their UK citizenship status.
As an extreme this could be a baby born in the UK that then moved with its British parents (work visas etc) to Aus within a very very short time. It would need its own passport to travel so wold have a British passport and thus be in all intents and purposes a British/Uk citizen. It then lives the rest of its life in Aus and gets Aus citizenship as soon as it can because it identifies itself as Australian (understandably). It still however has a British./Uk citizenship - for ever.
Thus it could never stand for Aus parliament - even though its entire cognitive life has been as an Australian and it was only ever British for a few months asa baby (or even weeks etc ...)
?????????
didds