Dual citizens are pretty much a dime a dozen. Triple citizens are also “common,” and it wasn’t even hard to find persons claiming to have quadruple citizenship on a Google search for the term.
Who was the person with the most national citizenships, and why did they have all of them?
I’m betting six, on account of two triple-citizen parents.
You don’t necessarily get the citzenship of your parents: my mother was a UK-born citizen of the UK, but I’m not one. Whether you inherit depends on various factors, including whether they have resided in the country of citizenship, and the gender of the parent (which was the factor in my case).
Is Elizabeth II considered a citizen of all the many places she’s Queen of?
Theoretically, someone born in Lvov in 1917 would have been born with Austrian citizenship, then in November of 1918, he’d be a citizen of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic, then in 1920, he would be a Polish citizen, and then briefly a citizen of the Galician Soviet Socialist Republic, then a Polish citizen again, then a citizen of the Soviet Union, then for a few days, a citizen of the free Ukranian state, then of the German occupied General Government, then after WWII, a Soviet citizen again, then, after 1991, a citizen of the Ukraine. All without ever moving.
I asked the same question here seven years ago.. I didn’t get an answer…
No, she’s not a citizen of anywhere. She effectively lost her UK citizenship in 1952.
Really? She stopped being a British subject in 1952, but citizenship’s a very different matter, surely?
Under Australian law, the Queen is neither a “citizen of Australia” or a “non-citizen of Australia”. It’s all very quantum.
According to the official website of the royal family, the Queen is “a national of the United Kingdom” and “a citizen of the European Union”. She’s also the ‘Fount of Justice’, which I’d think would hurt.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Queenandthelaw/HowUKandEUlawaffectTheQueen.aspx
Queen Elizabeth II has got to be an easy win if she is a citizen of all her realms. Damn royals. Is there a published example of an average Joe going over four?
Captain Amazing: Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
Giles: Right, and some countries don’t do jus sanguinus at all, but for those that do it has to be an easier path than just starting out as something lamebrains like being born to Canadians in Canada and then getting naturalized five more places from scratch.
e: Or not, WRT QEII.
Bonus question - How many people currently living have two passports from the same country? Hint - there are several thousand in the US alone.
Many people who hold diplomatic passports also hold regular passports.
several thousand?
Diplomats’ spouses and dependants need to be counted as well.
Indians on res, if they choose to accept the US passport?
I think some countries are also willing to issue multiple passports if you have legitimate reasons to frequently travel to both Israel and countries that won’t accept a passport with Israeli stamps in it.
Some countries also have multiple types of nationalities. Before the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, I used to have two valid British passports at the same time, endorsed with different nationalities.
I think there are technically two copies of the same passport.
The Empire/ Commonwealth was larger in her father’s day.
When was it largest? Victoria, possibly?
Out of curiosity, what was the purpose of that? Would one not have been enough for both travel and identification?
Also out of curiosity: Do you now have both a British passport and Chinese HKSAR passport?
Yes, but it didn’t consist of different citizenships until (from memory) 1948. Prior to that everyone was just a British Subject.