{"id":85091,"date":"2019-01-24T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85091"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:50:19","slug":"ditching-the-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/24\/ditching-the-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching the Dual Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>\u00a0Somaweera Sirisinghe of Auckland, New Zealand<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The issue of dual citizenship held by politicians arose recently in Australia and in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka an MP\u2019s election was declared void due to the person being a citizen of another country as well. Then stories of others of same genre were coming out of the woodworks.<\/p>\n<p>We have to note here that no one have been forced to obtain citizenship of another country. They seem to have obtained it on their own volition for their own benefit and then sought the advantages of the Dual Citizenship\u201d allowed by Sri Lanka Citizenship Law. Many other Asian countries including India do not have dual citizenships.<\/p>\n<p>Affected Sri Lankan politicians were seen rushing in search of solutions and some even ventured to give interpretations not only to the Sri Lanka\u2019s law but to the laws of the other countries and reportedly some have managed to remove this debilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Is it such an easy thing to do? Legal minds may differ in their opinions because there are some gray areas. Perhaps it may even require judicial interpretation or subsidiary legislation!<\/p>\n<p>According Sri Lanka\u2019s citizenship law a person ceases to be a citizen once he becomes a citizen of another country. However, the provisions for dual citizenship\u201d allow a person who fulfills the set of requirements specified in the law to either retain or resume his Sri Lankan citizenship. Thereafter she\/he is considered as a person with dual citizenship and the Sri Lankan Passport issued to her\/him contains an endorsement to this effect and proceeds to name the other country of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a person with dual citizenship causes to withdraw or relinquish his\/her citizenship of the other country? Logically he may be left with one citizenship but the legal status that he has <strong>retained or resumed<\/strong> Sri Lankan citizenship through dual citizenship process\u201d remains intact. Does the ditching of the citizenship of the other country legally bring him back to the pristine Sri Lanka citizenship he held previous to his foreign domicile?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Somaweera Sirisinghe of Auckland, New Zealand The issue of dual citizenship held by politicians arose recently in Australia and in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka an MP\u2019s election was declared void due to the person being a citizen of another country as well. Then stories of others of same genre were coming out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}