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Dual Citizenship: The Citizenship Act 2000 (Act 591 section 16) allows a citizen of Ghana to hold the citizenship of any other country in addition to his Ghanaian citizenship.
BENEFITS
Dual citizenship policy is argued to create the
following benefits. It provides benefits
individual from the right to obtain passports from
either country of citizenship.
It create simpler procedure for individual revisiting
former homelands for extended periods of time.
It create the opportunity to pursue employment
opportunities in either country of nationality.
It improves the right to social benefits, to own land or
property and to inherit assets from either . country. It
creates the entitlement to convey nationality right to
offspring.
It caters for those who feel equal alliance to both
countries of origin
DISADVANTAGES
Dual citizenship exposes citizens with dual nationality to expectation
that they should contribute, for example through national service, or
taxation, to their former countries.
Dual national possibly complicates some domestic legal issues such as
custody disputes
Dual nationality requires the impossible or unreasonable that people
should owe allegiance to more than one country.
Dual nationality is counter to notion of national identity, loyalty and
cohesion.
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