Dual Citizenship
Allowed under following circumstances:
- If he/she is an EU or Swiss citizen during naturalization.
- If he/she is a refugee and holds a 1951 travel document during naturalization.
- where a child born to German parents acquires another citizenship at birth (e.g. based on place of birth, or descent from one parent)
- where a naturalized German citizen, or a child born to non-German parents (non-EU or Swiss) in Germany, request and obtain a permission to keep his foreign nationality.
- where a German citizen acquires a foreign nationality with the permission of the German government (e.g. existing relative ties or property in Germany or in the other country or if the occupation abroad requires domestic citizenship for execution)
Read more about this topic: German Nationality Law
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