Solved paper. Different positions on offering citizenship by nations.

Some countries offer citizenship to other nationals without requiring them to shed their natural citizenship, but some other nations make it mandatory that one relinquishes one’s own citizenship prior to absorbing a foreign one.

Why do different nations approach citizenship so differently?

Legally belonging to another nation has always attracted people down the ages, and now the trend is much higher. In this respect, not all nations are keeping their doors open for all unconditionally; rather some so do so while some others want foreigners to shed their native position as a condition.

These two differing positions on citizenship are not without reasons. If we take up the first stance, it could be mainly on the grounds of easily absorbing intellectually intensive population from other geographies. For example, absorbing brilliant scientists and professional through citizenship makes great investment sense. The second thing might the diplomatic understanding in the sense that like-minded nations may have mutually binding agreements to exchange or absorb each other’s population so that both the parties get benefited in the long run.

This generous attitude to offering citizenship is not found everywhere. Strictly on security grounds, some nations want foreigner to be absolutely nationals by asking them to abandon their original citizenship. For them citizenship is all about allegiance to one nation and allegiance,  as a matter of fact, can in no way be shared between nations. For example, espionage, spying, treason, terrorism, extortion and trafficking are nightmares for any nation and these are mostly done not by natives. 

Besides this, some nations may not be happy to offer citizenship to other nationals. The extreme condition of forfeiting one’s natural citizenship would naturally discourage many people from trying to belong to another nation via citizenship.

In short, all nations of integrity have got their own rights to offer or not to offer citizenship to other nationals. They may have their own specific reasons as well.  But in village-like world, asking people to shed their citizenship to get another one is too much.   

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