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Kingdom but rather a part of it. We would thus avoid exacerbating the current tensions in Northern Ireland by obliging people there to settle their allegiances at once.
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A citizen of the United Kingdo's who became registered or naturalized as a citizen of another country, by his own voluntary act, would forfeit his old citizenship. Thus, an emigrant from Britain who settles in Canada and takes Canadian citizenship would cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom.
His position would be similar to that of
an euigrant to the United States, where the law requires a person to renounce his old citizenship as a condition of being naturalized.
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