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this effect on first attaining independence, while others which formerly allowed their citizens to hold another nationality have changed their law. Equally many countries
require applicants for naturalisation to renounce their former nationality as evidence of their commitment to their new country. Others extend the ban on dual nationality further, to those who have acquired it involuntarily through parents of different nationalities who are both able to transmit their citizenship. Usually such States
allow the child to remain a dual national until he is of
age, and then he has to decide within a specified time which citizenship he intends to hold, and renounce the other; if he fails to make a choice either way he automatically
forfeits the citizenship of the country concerned. 64. If the United Kingdom decided to tighten its law on dual nationality, there are thus various options:
(i)
(ii)
a complete ban on dual nationality where it arises either voluntarily (by naturalisation etc.) or involuntarily (by descent for instance), with some arrangements for children who are dual nationals to make a choice when they come of age; a ban on dual nationality where it arises voluntarily our citizens who voluntarily took another citizenship would thereby lose our
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citizenship, and applicants for our citizenship would have to renounce any other citizenship as a condition of becoming citizens;
(iii) a ban on dual nationality only where our citizens
voluntarily acquired another nationality (as was the practice in United Kingdom law from 1870-1948).