Expats with dual nationality
VVD, CDA and D66 want Dutch expats to be allowed to have a second nationality. VVD and CDA support an amendment from D66 to regulate this.
In doing so, they partly reverse their agreements with the PVV in the coalition and tolerance agreement. It included that people must opt for Dutch citizenship. Foreigners who want Dutch nationality must first renounce their own nationality. And Dutch people who want to take on a second nationality are obliged to renounce their Dutch nationality.
As a result of this proposal, Dutch people who also want to have the nationality of their second country no longer have to choose. The same goes for their children who are born there. “We are proud of those Dutch people who export our knowledge and skills to other countries,” says Mirjam Sterk of the CDA. But the rules for foreigners who want to become Dutch citizens will remain in place. “If someone comes to the Netherlands, we believe that he should give up his other nationality,” said VVD MP Cora van Nieuwenhuizen.
Protest
The cabinet wants to lay down in law that all Dutch citizens may only have one nationality, unless this is legally impossible. This would stimulate involvement in the Netherlands and improve integration. One nationality would also clarify the rights and obligations that exist between state and individual. The cabinet does not want to make an exception for expats. But many Dutch people who live and work abroad for a long time have strongly protested against the plan.
The Council of State advised the cabinet to abandon the proposal in March. According to the Council of State, the cabinet has insufficiently substantiated that nationality and loyalty go hand in hand.
Source: NOS
D66 has tabled two amendments, one that reverses almost all proposed changes (ie practically nothing changes, not even for immigrants) and one that does not prohibit dual nationality for emigrants. In that case, no one will benefit because an immigrant can first naturalize (become a Dutch national) and then temporarily emigrate back to the country of origin to still take on a second nationality.
I heard that the VVD wants to prevent this cumbersome, expensive shortcut by also prohibiting dual nationality if a naturalized person with only Dutch nationality moves back to his country of birth…
In other words, if you migrate to Thailand as a Dutch citizen, you can take dual nationality (provided you manage to become Thai, which is quite difficult) but your naturalized Thai partner should choose which nationality he/she wants to keep and which one he/she specify. How crooked do you want it?
There is nothing wrong with dual nationality, there is (potential) dual loyalty, but you can counter that by prohibiting, for example, members of parliament from being representatives in another (hostile) country, prohibiting dual nationality if you voluntarily serve in an army which is at war with the Netherlands (as van Dam of the PvdA proposes in another amendment) etc.
Incidentally, I believe that it can also promote integration: why force a migrant to burn all the ships behind him? If the migration goes wrong, you can easily return to your country of birth. It is also very practical because of regular travel back and forth between two countries because of contacts with family, friends, etc. You cannot demand that a migrant give up all ties with the home country, especially not at once.
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It would be best if I also adopt Thai nationality, partly because as a visa holder I have to wait and see whether the Thai government does not suddenly stop extending my type of visa.
Look, dual nationality is handy and not so that you can eat from two free racks. No, the children 50% Thai, two PPs. Can now own real estate , no longer difficult to stay in Thailand for a long time . Your Thai wife, well, she should put some effort into it. An assistance waiver could also be a good requirement, then it remains fair and tidy. And then the Dutchman, I don't see what the advantage is except that there is less hassle with visas. Daughter has two nationalities, one by birth, Dutch, one because the mother is Thai. Will soon marry an Englishman and will then have a third nationality. Well, if a country starts to act very smart (taxes in the Netherlands, for example) then you just withdraw that leg.