Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Belgium (WAS: New topic - what makes "it" newsworthy?)
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Jan 12 03:10:18 2008
References: <C3AD042E.26665%bd@bdcolenphoto.com> <15FFFDAB-2132-4F8B-989F-BFEC05E2B9DF@cox.net> <ECA17AEB-0E20-4474-8A7C-DDE7C9BB435B@mac.com> <5FAEE321-B5CF-4A9A-95E8-FDFEE17080F9@cox.net> <8374DB36-F0ED-4AE2-87F3-B67CE3D7CD29@pandora.be> <472A1DBC-0A8A-4E50-B972-095379632EFE@nathanfoto.com> <a2f8f4470801120101ie510bbat25af2c29a50a8feb@mail.gmail.com> <3cad89990801120139m40b30163lb5d3ef17969d64fa@mail.gmail.com> <4550F99F-183B-4EC4-8654-04F87FD2E465@nathanfoto.com> <a2f8f4470801120258j2d32a660v72bb7267a1a0119e@mail.gmail.com>

There has been a big debate going on here about this, though now it is more
or less settled that dual citizenship would be allowed. In the meantime non
- citizens of Indian origin have been issued a PIO (Persons of Indian
Origin) card, which entitles them to practically all benefits, including
entry as a resident, i.e. without visas (which is usually all people want),
except that they are not allowed to vote.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Jan 12, 2008 4:28 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:

> At that time, Sweden didn't allow it either.
>
> But Sweden was eventually simply forced to.
>
> There were so many people like me living here. Me = "other
> citizenship" married to a Swedish citizen.
>
> So my children are automatically Swedish citizens (because their
> mother is and they were born here).
>
> I applied for visa for them so we could all visit my family in the US
> and the US Embassy said: "no way. They are American citizens and
> therefore they must enter the US on a US passport."
>
> So even if Sweden did not allow active dual citizenships, there was a
> whole chunk of the populations being born into dual citizenships.
>
> So around 2000 or 2001 (can't remember) Sweden decided to quite
> requiring new citizens to renouce their previous citizenship. I waited
> a year or so to make sure the whole thing wasn't a trick (I am
> paranoid by nature) and ended up applying. It made it so much easier
> since I was involved in so many EU research projects at the time.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 11:32 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jayanand,
> >
> > I am not Daniel, but I am in a similar situation; I have dual US and
> > Polish citizenship. The US generally permits this, so whether it is
> > possible or not depends on whether the other country does--for
> > example, Denmark does not (that is how I lost my Danish citizenship,
> > when I became a US citizen in 1987).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> >
> > On 12-jan-2008, at 10:39, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel,
> > > Would you have dual citizenship, or would you have to surrender
> > > your US
> > > citizenship?
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
> > > On Jan 12, 2008 2:31 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yep, and Philippe has just summed up why I decided to apply for
> > >> Swedish citizenship.
> > >>
> > >> I wanted to be a citizen of the EU and for me, Belgium represents
> > >> what
> > >> I would like the EU to be.
> > >>
> > >> Daniel
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Jan 12, 2008 7:57 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> Philippe has just summed up some of the reasons why I think that of
> > >>> all the countries where I have lived, I consider Belgium to have the
> > >>> best overall quality of life (I have not yet lived in Spain long
> > >>> enough to include it in the comparison).
> > >>>
> > >>> Nathan
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 12-jan-2008, at 2:54, Philippe Orlent wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I ?m Belgian, and the essence of that is a kind of 'intuitive
> > >>>> western polyglotness': linguisticly we have Indogerman, but also
> > >>>> Southern European influences, both very often combined with a
> > >>>> classic education (intensive Latin and Greek). It's quite unique
> > >>>> really. So we might have ridiculous jurisdiction, a laugheable
> > >>>> government, an opportunistic nature, and whatever other city myth,
> > >>>> but in languages we do excell. And in cuisine ofcourse ;-)
> > >>>> Anyways.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Nathan Wajsman
> > >>> nathan@nathanfoto.com
> > >>> General photography:
> > >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
> > >>> http://www.greatpix.eu
> > >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > >>> Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > >>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > nathan@nathanfoto.com
> > General photography:
> > http://www.nathanfoto.com
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> >
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