I met my citizenship when filling out the form: how to fill it out?

For most China people who have no foreign nationality, just fill in China or People's Republic of China (PRC).

Citizenship is a legal concept. Obtaining citizenship means obtaining permanent citizenship rights of the country and holding its passport. As China's current practice is not to recognize dual nationality, which is commonly known as dual nationality, it is necessary to give up China passport in order to obtain passports from other countries. If you return to China, you need to apply for a visa.

Nationality is actually a cultural concept, which describes your ethnic affiliation and birthplace. Of course, the nationality of the Chinese people born in China and raised in China is China, and the nationality of the first generation of overseas immigrants is also China. If someone asks your nationality, what he really cares about is your race and birthplace.

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When filling out such a form, citizenship is easily confused with another word "nationality".

When filling in the form, it can be understood that nationality is the country of birth and citizenship is the country where legal citizenship is registered.

For China, which does not recognize dual citizenship, it is not so complicated to fill in this column. The two items are the same, both are China. But if you meet some friends who happen to have such dual identities, the contents of the two columns may be different.

At present, about 90 countries in the world recognize and accept dual citizenship in different ways or to different degrees, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, Switzerland and other countries.

There are three ways for countries around the world to recognize dual nationality:

1, explicitly recognized, fully recognized: The Constitution and the Nationality Law stipulate that citizens can have dual nationality, such as Russia.

2. Indirect recognition (acquiescence): The Constitution and the Nationality Law do not prohibit dual nationality, nor do they prohibit citizens from holding the nationality of other countries at the same time. According to the law, if they are not prohibited, they are allowed. For example, the United States, Ireland, Australia, France, Poland and so on.

3. Conditional recognition and limited recognition: for example, Germany and Austria.

But there are 27 countries in the world that don't recognize dual nationality at all, including China.

China's nationality law clearly stipulates that China citizens cannot have dual nationality. If he acquires another nationality, he will be deemed to have voluntarily renounced China nationality.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Dual Nationality