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DUAL CITIZENSHIP


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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