Are you a dual citizen?

Are you a citizen of more than one country?

  • Yes

    Votes: 96 40.0%

  • No

    Votes: 137 57.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 2.9%
  • Total voters
    240
Could be a triple but can't really see any benefit to adding SA to the bunch.

The kids have dual SA/US, and can probably add UK to the mix if they choose to, while my wife needs a visa to go just about anywhere worthwhile.
 
How can you be a dual citizen of one country?
Could also be triple, considering adding Latvia for some EU citizenship goodness.
Looking at the admin involved in renewing my SA passport, seriously considering letting that **** lapse.
 
Sinbad said:
How can you be a dual citizen of one country?
Could also be triple, considering adding Latvia for some EU citizenship goodness.
Looking at the admin involved in renewing my SA passport, seriously considering letting that **** lapse.
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It's easier to renew your SA passport in SA than it is to try to do it through our useless embassies.
 
deweyzeph said:
It's easier to renew your SA passport in SA than it is to try to do it through our useless embassies.
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Indeed. Sitting with that issue now. We're in SA for 2 weeks in June, want to do it through the bank then (my wife's expires early next year, mine is the year after). I can't get into e-homeaffairs to make the booking because it sends an OTP to my SA number. I can't reregister. They don't respond to email.
DHA is a ****ing joke.

/edit my wife's not registered so hopefully we can register her, and then make an appointment that way,
 
Sinbad said:
Indeed. Sitting with that issue now. We're in SA for 2 weeks in June, want to do it through the bank then (my wife's expires early next year, mine is the year after). I can't get into e-homeaffairs to make the booking because it sends an OTP to my SA number. I can't reregister. They don't respond to email.
DHA is a ****ing joke.

/edit my wife's not registered so hopefully we can register her, and then make an appointment that way,
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Unfortunately the E-homeaffairs portal requires each adult to register their own separate account. Only minors under 16 can be helped through another adult's account. We just had to register a separate account for my 16-year old step-daughter in order for her to get her first ID card.
 
deweyzeph said:
Unfortunately the E-homeaffairs portal requires each adult to register their own separate account. Only minors under 16 can be helped through another adult's account. We just had to register a separate account for my 16-year old step-daughter in order for her to get her first ID card.
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That's fine. Her passport is the immediate problem, expiring in Feb. Mine has an extra year and also I have a British one so no real problem.
 
TheMightyQuinn said:
Working in my Dutch citizenship. They do not allow dual, but then again I have no qualms about giving up my SA citizenship at all.
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seems to be a grey area:

Renouncing your nationality | IND

When you become a Dutch citizen, you must renounce the nationality you now have. This means that you give up that nationality. Do you have more than 1 nationality? The information on this page applies to each nationality you have.
ind.nl ind.nl

I know of dual citizen saffas over there, although many like my own family who emigrated there don't bother with the formal process of informing South Africa when they become NL citizens and effectively give up their ZA citizenship even when Netherlands doesn't ask for it
 
Sinbad said:
Indeed. Sitting with that issue now. We're in SA for 2 weeks in June, want to do it through the bank then (my wife's expires early next year, mine is the year after). I can't get into e-homeaffairs to make the booking because it sends an OTP to my SA number. I can't reregister. They don't respond to email.
DHA is a ****ing joke.

/edit my wife's not registered so hopefully we can register her, and then make an appointment that way,
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In case you haven't thought if it, couldn't you use a local's cellphone number for the OTP? Then change the listed local's cellphone later.
 
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