Do you have multiple citizenships?

Do you have multiple citizenships?

  • Yes - it's my birthright

    Votes: 76 28.5%

  • Yes - through naturalisation

    Votes: 22 8.2%

  • No, not yet but I'm hoping to

    Votes: 55 20.6%

  • Nope

    Votes: 112 41.9%

  • Other option

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Total voters
    267
Polymathic said:
If he came as an endentured labourer his name will be on a shiplist, if your parents where born before 1961 their passenger numbers will be on their birth certificate. If that's the case all you'll need is your parents birth certificate and an unabridged birth certificate and R3-4K to get an OCI.

My cousin got his, I'm still trying to find my mother's birth certificate she has two grand
parents who were born in India.
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Not sure how my grandfather came in. My dad was born in SA in 1957. I think my grandfather came over in the early 50s or late 40s.
 
signates said:
Not sure how my grandfather came in. My dad was born in SA in 1957. I think my grandfather came over in the early 50s or late 40s.
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You going to need some sort of proof then your grandfather was from India, if you are lucky maybe there's a hoarder in your family who has all the documents.
 
Polymathic said:
I hear Korea isn't that expensive for South African though not sure the person who told was referring to the Best Korea or South Korea.
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So foreigners in North Korea can only use USD and CNY and you can only buy a designated, government approved stores... lol, so expect tourist prices. Very few foreigners live full time in North Korea, mainly a few diplomats and some exchange students. Never been there. Have friend's who went there as tourists for like a few days.

I'm sure the person was talking about South Korea though.
When it comes to prices of goods and services, if it was 8 or 9 years ago, definitely.
When I first went there in 2020 (1000krw = ±R7), I thought it's a touch more expensive than SA, but very comparable. Eg, a Big Mac was basically the same price (5100krw). I could still get electronics, little bit cheaper than what it would cost in SA.

Today it's much more pricey though, not only due to the Rand that went ultra donkey crap (1000krw = R14 in 2020), but also, early 2010's was kinda that period where Korea started reaching an economical turning point, from a highly developing country, to proper first world developed country, competing with ultra-developed places like Japan. I think comparable to Japan in the 80's.

That's where economics started doing its thing, country started making even more money, even more investment from the outside, interest rates became very low and people started spending much more and as a result, things became much more expensive (positive inflation) when you look at it from the outside as a South African.

However as a resident, earning in local currency, you'd probably be fairly well off even at entry level jobs. Few trade off's you'll probably live in a kinda small (but ultra modern) flat/apartment for about 800,000krw per month, instead of owning a house with and garden like in SA.
Add 40,000krw to that and you can get yourself a 1gbps fibre connection. You're welcome.

Still, it's much cheaper to eat out in restaurants (especially local family-run restaurants) every day in Korea, than cooking for yourself everyday.
I love cooking, but after a busy day, it's much nicer (convenient) to drop by my favourite noodle or bibimbap place for a quick, tasty dinner.

The few times I went grocery shopping to cook myself dinner, a little basket easily hit 40-50,000krw for a nights' cooking where you can have an awesome meal at a local restaurant for like 5000krw. No tipping. Free water.

My ex-girlfriend worked at a Starbucks cafe in Seoul, 4 days a week, and got a 1,400,000krw (about R20k) monthly salary, making coffee with automated coffee machines.

But yeah, it's a great place. Clean, modern, next level safe.
 
In about a year or so I'll be a South African and British citizen - depending on whether or not I can be arsed to apply and pay £250 to retain my SA citizenship, that is. With the current state of the country being worse than when I left, it's becoming more and more unlikely.
 
The Voice said:
In about a year or so I'll be a South African and British citizen - depending on whether or not I can be arsed to apply and pay £250 to retain my SA citizenship, that is. With the current state of the country being worse than when I left, it's becoming more and more unlikely.
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If born in SA, you'll always have permanent residence birthright, even if you renounce SA citizenship. Makes travelling to back to SA for visits even easier as you can then enter on your UK passport with PR permit, instead of having to wait for that useless high commission to issue a new SA passport that never arrives.
 
ronald911 said:
If born in SA, you'll always have permanent residence birthright, even if you renounce SA citizenship. Makes travelling to back to SA for visits even easier as you can then enter on your UK passport with PR permit, instead of having to wait for that useless high commission to issue a new SA passport that never arrives.
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Still think it's **** that I have to apply to retain something that is my birth-right, and that I've held for the last 40 years.
 
Originally from EU but resident in SA for looking time, so got Naturalized
 
eg2505 said:
what possible secrets could you hide in Namibia?
a nuclear powered tunneling machine to cause earthquakes?
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Enough uranium being mined up near Swakopmund to have rumours circulating that the CIA / FBI had a field office to monitor it.
 
The Voice said:
In about a year or so I'll be a South African and British citizen - depending on whether or not I can be arsed to apply and pay £250 to retain my SA citizenship, that is. With the current state of the country being worse than when I left, it's becoming more and more unlikely.
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Why do you have to pay £250? According to Home Affairs the fee for retaining SA citizenship is only R300.

EDIT: link - http://www.dha.gov.za/index.php/fees
 
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