I don't see what tactics you're hinting at --really!
Anyway, in case you're Canuck (truedog, that's not offensive, is it?), here's the proof --right from the German Consulate's website-- showing you how cool it is to squeeze yourself in the German citizenship while keeping your Canadian tag:
Dual Citizenship
German laws generally do not allow dual citizenship. Therefore a German who is naturalized on demand in a foreign country without keeping a domicile or permanent residence in Germany generally loses his/her German citizenship. If children are naturalized on their parents application the children, however, lose the German citizenship only if the parents applied at the same time for themselves for the foreign citizenship or if the parents had the consent of a German guardianship court. The most important exception to the general prohibition of dual citizenship is the case that the German and a foreign citizenship are both acquired automatically, the German by birth or adoption and the foreign according to the rules of the foreign country. This is the case for example for a child born in Canada to at least one German parent. Another case is a child having one Canadian and one German parent. Besides that Germany very exceptionally allows to keep the German citizenship in case of naturalization in a foreign country (Beibehaltungsgenehmigung). This requires a demand before acquisition of the foreign citizenship and the demonstration of a special individual and public interest of considerable weight to keep the German citizenship with the foreign
citizenship.
Direct link:
germanembassyottawa.org
Now, mouthy MNI, tell me why the German Law doesn't provide for an additional exception: Another case is a child having one Turkish and one German parent? Ethnical nit-picking? You tell me!
Regards,
Gustave. |
