Fun fact: if you have North Korean citizenship, South Korea will automatically give you a South Korean citizenship as well

Hongkongers and Macanese get 2 passports because where they lived were handed over to China. So you could have dual Macau-Australia dad and Hong Kong-Canada mum, and born in Northern Ireland. Giving him/her Australian, Macau, Portuguese, Canadian, Hong Kong, BNO, Irish, and British citizenship. He/she can then move to New Zealand for 5 years (under Trans-tasman), so 9 passports in the first 5 years. Then do all the naturalising and investing and marrying Cabo Verdean etc and should be able to reach 30 passports.

I once known a guy that was born in Yugoslavia and worked with me in Austria butt he didn't have a Austrian citizenship, so when Yugoslavia split he was a stateless person

0:35 "citizenship probably hasn't affected your life" laughing in pain with my Syrian citizenship.

I’m American and am months away from becoming a citizen in Luxembourg, as well. I remember in one of your videos you speculated that the best possible dual citizenship combo would be US-Luxembourg. It was a weird surprise for me to hear as someone applying to become just that.

I have a duel citizenship in Canada and the UK, am eligible to gain a irish citizenship because I was born in Northern Ireland, and my Grandparents are irish, and I could get a Italian citizenship because a great-grampa on my dad's side of the family is Italian. 4 potential citizenship ain't bad.

Fun fact: technically Brazil does not allow its citizens to have dual citizenship if they are naturalized elsewhere. It's even written in the constitution. The only time I (or anyone for that matter) heard of it being enforced was when Claudia Hoerig (a Brazilian woman naturalized in the US) was extradited back to America after getting the death penalty. It was such a shock that a proposal to amend the law and make it harder for people to lose their nationality is being discussed in the congress at this exact moment.

I live in The Netherlands, if I apply for UK citizenship I lose automatically my Dutch citizenship lol

You should look into the boxer, Roy Jones Jr. I randomly googled him a couple years ago and saw that he has Russian citizenship. I was super confused because I was 100% sure he was from Florida. But apparently he became friends with Vladimir Putin and Putin just gave Roy Jones Jr a Russian citizenship lol. I found it very interesting.

Some countries are literally treating citizenship there like a patreon reward tier

I'm an Australian and UK dual citizen. Can live and work in the 2 countries, also visa free access to New Zealand and Ireland (same rights as a citizen). Australians also have a special visa (E3) just for Aussies, if they want to live in the US hassle free also. Honestly, just look into your family tree, there are so many opportunities for dual citizenship. For example, if you had an Italian ancestor in the last few centuries, you can get Italian (EU) citizenship if you can prove lineage.

The rarest citizenship in the world is of Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Only three citizens. Imagine being such an exceptional person. And imagine landing in JFK and US officials scratching their heads: Sorry, your country does not exist !

Language level B1 basically means you are an intermediate learner and can hold a normal every day conversation and write in that language too. You can't exactly talk a our politics and will probably need help for bureaucratic stuff and if you go to the doctor with something more serious but you can get by and aren't just a stammering mess. You can also work and communicate with co-workers and customers just not very eloquently. The levels go: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 the last is being as good as any native speaker. Most places actually require you to speak the language at least at a B2 or C1 level because that is where you can actually have deep and complicated conversations. My English is at a C1 level because I can talk pretty much about anything with someone who speaks English too and it comes out fluently and I can so the same in writing.

If you get a North Macedonian citizenship you'll instantly lose all of your Greek subscribers

Estonia also have "non-citizen passport", called "grey passport". It's a complex situation, but the short version is this: In an effort to quell Nationalism, many Russians were relocated (many by force) to Estonia, in order to mix and create a big happy Soviet family. During the "Singing Revolution" (1988-1991), there were two governments in Estonia: the old Soviet one, loyal to the USSR, and the new Republic of Estonia Government. Many Russians stayed loyal to the Soviet Regime, mostly because of anti-Russian sentiments in the new Republic. So when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a large portion of Russians in Estonia suddenly became stateless. So they were given an alien passport (which was grey in colour), until the situation could be sorted out. So basically no new grey passports are issued today.

Obtaining dual citizenship comes with a catch. Any of the two countries could revoke their passport quite a bit easier because you wouldn't become stateless. And believe me this happens. I am a Dutch citizen and wouldn't want to change even though I've lived abroad for almost half my life. It's a powerful passport for traveling including a handful of Caribbean islands where I can spend 6 months per year without a visa. Netherlands doesn't tax me because I live abroad and earn my money abroad. I have absolutely no duties towards my country of origin other than paying for a new passport every 10 years. That's a pretty sweet deal.

I imagine the reason for the partial citizenship requirement to purchase property in American Samoa is so there isnt a bunch of rich mainlander Americans buying up all the property and displacing the local population.

And finally, the child becomes a bishop and lives in the Vatican, adding the final citizenship to the "passport-gauntlet"

Brazilian citizen doesn't sound so useful for someone from a developped country, but it is certainly one of the best citizenships in the world for travelling. Many children of Chinese and Arab immigrants who have barely any connection to Brazil still seek it to make their travels easier and visa free to more countries (we don't need visa neither to Europe nor to England, for example).

14:30 A Reason you need a Residency or citizenship to buy a house in NZ is because Rich people from other countries were buying up most of Retail market, and stopping actual Kiwis from getting houses

I really liked the editing, it was simple but added to what was being said making it easier to follow without taking away from the "second channel dont care" motif that you follow.

Love info on multiple citizenships. I have 4 citizenships: Canada, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. EU citz come from my parents and the other from my grandparents. Citizenship is one of the underrated conversations these days.

I am a citizen of the UK, Poland & Italy... All allow dual. My wife is American & we are having a child next month, so my child will have 4 at birth.

Remember that some countries have a limit on the amount of simultaneous citizenships one can have. If I remember correctly here in Mexico I can only have a 2nd citizenship with my Mexican citizenship, if I get a 3th I automatically loose my Mexican citizenship and go back to only 2.

If you want to get Vatican citizenship you have to work for the Vatican in certain jobs and also live in the Vatican, and if you lose your job you lose your citizenship. If you have no other citizenship, you become an Italian citizen, though, so that's cool.

I'm pretty sure you can have more than 1 citizenship by birth if you are born in a disputed area, like being born in Antartica or Korea will give you both Chilean and Argentinian or South Korean and North Korean citizenships respectively as the nations keep enforcing their pride over land.

Hey there! My body is on British time apparently lmao.

4:52 this very scenario (with different countries though) actually happened with my granny... her parents were British (although one was born in Argentina so was an Argentine citizen) but she was born in Argentina so she was born with, and still retains, two citizenships.

I have a friend that has parents from scotland and jamaica, they moved to brazil to have their two kids so they could be brazilians, then moved to the US. Seemed crazy to me until watching this episode.

Took me over a year to get my Irish citizenship due to Brexit (they had a massive backlog), and this was before covid. It's well worth the wait and money imo, I love the idea you get to retain your freedom of movement.

Chinese citizens vote, it's just all candidates from the same party. You could argue the process isn't as transparent as other democratic nations but that'll deduct your social credit.

Im almost a quadruple citizen :P Right now I have American, Swiss and British citizenship. I just recently passed my Canadian citizenship test and I think my swearing-in ceremony will be in a month's time.

Germany really doesn't like Dual citizenship and will only allow it for those countries that don't let their people renounce citizenship. Even kids born with more than one citizenship have to choose which one they keep before they turn 22. I think it's weird, at least two citizenships should be fine.

Toycat, often informative, always entertaining. Thanks for knowledge.

Great video ;) I really enjoyed the editing!

I feel more valuable as a dual citizen now. Time to find another dual citizen and get married in cape verde, have a kid in Brazil, travel to the easiest countries to get citizenship by naturalization, and then invest in the 10 countries that you can buy citizenship from. Easy 16 + any from naturalization

26:32 The Netherlands do actually allow dual citizenship! I have both dutch and danish citizenship! I was born to a dutch dad and a danish mom though, so I'm not sure if it's different if you start out with another citizenship and apply for a dutch one later or the other way around. I've never had an issue with the Dutch regarding my dual citizenship.

This is so fascinating! Good job

funny that this pops up on my home page since I got word that I get to keep my Danish citizenship just a few months ago For context: I'm Dutch and Danish, and I've had two passports (dual citizenship) ever since I was born; I was raised bilingual and I'm fluent in both languages. Due to my dad being a member of the Dutch parliament I lived in the Netherlands for most of my life and as a result, I have never "lived" in Denmark despite going there every holiday. Basically, if you are born and have a danish parent, but don't live there you only get the first part of your CPR-number. Dutch citizenship was never an issue as I was living there and I went to school there. But Denmark is really strict with who they allow being a citizen, so basically, if you don't go through a long procedure before you're 22 you'll lose your citizenship basically. Denmark only started allowing dual citizenship a few years ago. The Netherlands have, as far as I know, since I've been alive always allowed dual citizenship - so Denmark was always the complicated country lol. As a kid I was told I'd have to choose one of the two citizenships once I turned 18 - and since I feel more connected to Danish culture than to Dutch culture I would always have chosen to keep the Danish one. That's also why I was determined to keep my Danish one now, I didn't want to lose the citizenship to the country I felt most at home. And besides, it would feel weird to me to go through life only having one citizenship as I feel a connection to both countries. Anyway, back to the thing... I had to live in Denmark for at least one year, which I did during covid as all my classes were online anyway so I didn't have to be at my Dutch university, which was really convenient. I also had to make a detailed description of the importance to me to keep my danish citizenship and prove that I am connected to the country. On top of that, I had to have "witnesses", and they had to fill in a long detailed document of how I belonged to Denmark and how good my danish was. I'm VERY happy that my family and danish friends were willing to do that for me. I also had to have birtcertificates from my parents, and further proof that my mom was born. and raised in Denmark. We also had to pay 1200 dkr I believe (or something like that) at some point as a "registration fee" for starting a case with the Danish immigration office. After a while, I was finally done with everything and I handed the complete document in 20 days before I turned 22. It had to be delivered to the immigration officials before you turned 22, and you would get the result after, which could take up to 10 months (it was okay if you turned 22 before you received the answer, just as long as you had submitted it before you turned 22). Luckily my university research into Danish literature, my job as a Dutch-Danish translator and my ability to speak Danish fluently as well as having Danish family members over there was enough to convince the government officials to let me keep my Danish citizenship. The whole application process took me 2 years, but now I have my full CPR number, I have my new passport and I get to keep my citizenship! I've been so relieved and happy that everything worked out and that it's all over now :) Fun fact: I was offered Belgian citizenship as I was born in Brussels but my parents refused that, which is a shame because I could have been chilling with 3 citizenships right now smh 🤦‍♀️

Informative, entertaining, good pace.

This was fun to watch. I have two nationalities: Venezuelan by birth and Spanish by blood (my father’s mother). I can also be Colombian (my mom is Colombian) and Dominican (my father’s father was Dominican). I have lived 4 years and a half in Ireland. I decided to move to Spain 6 months before I could have asked for the Irish nationality after being a legal European resident for 5 years. And my boyfriend is Romanian (we have been together 6+ years), and after being married with him for 5 years I could become Romanian (after showing I know the language and culture). So technically I could have had 6 nationalities by now. And even more if I was rich. 😂🤣 Interesting fact: for iberoamerican citizens, Spain allows to ask fo Spanish citizenship after only 2 years of legal residency in the country (because of our cultural similarities).

Hi! I've been academically researching nationality (statelessness, more specifically, but still) for a while. I didn't read all the comments, so sorry if anyone already mentioned this. The issue of multiple naturalizations can be a problem. Being a native Brazilian, for instance, you can't get a new nationality via voluntary naturalization (because yes, there can be cases where a naturalization is, arguably, mandatory - such as the case for some lines of work abroad, where you need to become a national to keep your job indefinitely) without risking losing your Brazilian one (under the terms of art. 12, § 4, II, of the Brazilian Constitution). Still, as a Brazilian myself (by birth in Brazilian territory, and by descent - both are possible, and my parents are Brazilians themselves), I have other two nationalities via jus sanguinis, and am on my way to getting my third one, also via jus sanguinis, making a total of 4 nationalities. Depending on the country, there is no limit as to how many generations have to have passed for you to get hold of their nationality via jus sanguinis, as long as you can prove a direct lineage. That is the case of Italy (though technically the law only refers to that right via masculine bloodline, if you go to court - and several people have - you can also claim that right via feminine/mixed bloodlines). Also, with Portugal for example, great-grandchildren of Portuguese nationals can get Portuguese nationality as long as their grandparents/parents get it themselves (since that would make them, in turn, children/grandchildren of Portuguese nationals). It is a very interesting topic! Even if I am biased to say so haha congrats on the video!

Thanks for uploading.

KZfaq recommended your channel and I love how passionate you sound for this subject! It's so pleasant to listen to you I would have loved to see the issue of having to choose between citizenships brought up though, but it's such a large subject it's difficult to cover up everything NB: I have a friend who's got, like, 4 or 5 nationalities

In Argentina is really common to have 2 citizenships due to past European immigration. So a lot of people have Italian, German, Spanish or Polish passports. I have multiple links with Italians from the 1800s so I moved to Italy and got my citizenship and passport in 3 months just by proving my link with birth and marriage certificates. Italy has the jure sanguinis rule, so people that are descendants from Italian are in fact Italians due to the blood link. When you apply for citizenship you are only asking for the recognition of your right, that is why is not very complicated to get it.

Well am currently single with almost 3 citizenships(Slovenian, Croatian and almost Italian). If anyone wants to start collecting passports am here😂

I don’t really like learning about geography, but this video was amazing. Enjoyed it thoroughly 👍 good stuff

I thought the editing was great! It was helpful but didn't take away from the chill style of your videos

My father illegally left Hungary in 1948 and by doing so lost his citizenship. He became a stateless person without any citizenship at all in any country.

Dude I live in Hanoi and the British Embassy here is god awful. If you lost your passport here you’d be lucky to be allowed in the office or even get a response by email from them.

I like your humor 😂 you earned yourself a subscriber

Yay new Toycat vid Good edits

SK and Japan: No dual citizenship, u choose at 21. //SK might allow dual citizenships, there's like very complicated procedures to get it but the core thing is being born in Korea and registered there or born to a Korean father but you registered your birth in Korea. But Koreans born and raised overseas aren't considered Korean citizens so kpop idols like Felix and Bangchan will not be required to serve the Korean military as they are not Korean (Citizen)

David Nelman, the founder of Jet Blue is one of these “fake” Brazilian citizens, he used his citizenship to circumvent a Brazilian law that said that only Brazilian citizens can be founders of Brazilian airlines to found Azul, a Brazilian airline

Beautiful video!

New patreon goal or riot

I know a girl that has 3 citizenrights. American, Denmark and Icelandic. sometimes she has no idea what passport to use when she travels.

In 🇰🇼 ( where I’m from ) there is literally no way to get a citizenship, like literally NO WAY ……

I liked the editing (:

i wasnt looking at my phone and just listening because i was letting the ad run, so when the video actually started i was surprised with the 'hello' 🤣

I was born and raised in France. Main part of my identity. Main language. Both my parents are Moroccan nationals, and by the Moroccan constitution so am I. (Roots and grand parents) I've been living and working in Canada for 10years now and recently became Canadian and I'm not going anywhere 🤩 I absolutely LOVE my THREE WONDERFUL HOMELANDS 🇫🇷 🇲🇦 🇨🇦

I'm currently a US citizen and a Brasilian citizen. My dad was born in Brasil so I get citizenship there, I just have to reapply every so often after I turned 18

A Chinese guy on the internet told me to get Taiwan RoC citizenship which is possible and wait until China invades then I could be Chinese💀💀💀😂

As an Polish-American, I’m weirdly entitled to Polish citizenship because my grandma immigrated here in the late 40s to avoid Soviet occupation. This would give me full rights in the EU.

i used to have 4 nationalities but had to renounce my german and dutch one when i turned 18. now im just french and australian.

If Japan and Chad have never been in the same room together, the only logical conclusion is that Japan *is* Chad.

Great vid!

It's cool that you made this video now, because I got my second citizenship this year. My case is something unusual: a European getting a citizenship in a Latin American country without being born there. At least I don't think that's very common.

I’m sure this doesn’t need to be pointed out to you given your ancestry, but for those unfamiliar with why Ireland’s citizenship rules for people from NI it’s not as simple as Ireland did it to alleviate tension. The act to allow people from the North citizenship was passed in 1956 and it’s due to the fact that Irish people in the south see people from the north as Irish (not so much citizens but simply peoples of the isle). This has also meant more recently because of the troubles more people than prior recognising that if all people are Irish there is a subset of the population on the island mostly (and in majority) in the north that feel stronger ties to being British moreso than Irish. This is most clearly seen in the removal of the claim to Northern Ireland being in the Irish constitution and instead agreeing that if a majority of people in that jurisdiction decide for or against unification that the Republic and the U.K. would accept that result.

20:18 Latvian citizens don't have mandatory military service

I'm Brazilian and Italian citizen. I was born in Brazil and I had a past relative who was born in Italy and moved to Brazil. I did the process to prove my family tree to my great great parent and then now I'm dual national.

Woah I was born In Cabo Verde and wasn’t expecting at all to hear it mentioned 🇨🇻

about the brazilian citizenchip: to foreigners to apply for a citizenchip you need to live in brasil for 5 years (without interruptions) and don't have any criminal conviction. (for portuguese citizens and other portuguese speaking countries the rules change a bit)

Honestly having a Canadian passport is the cheat code needed to go anywhere in the world without issue for the most part. Worst case I have a second European passport, from where my parents were born but I rarely use that one due to the Canadian one being the best traveling in most cases.

I am an Irish that often went to all sort of places, so I was planning to get few citizenships of countries I often visit like the UK (I'm 1/4 Scottish) or Japan (lots of relatives and friends, even I have me own flat there). But out of all I'm applying for the Indonesian citizenship instead (and it sucks because the country do not allow dual citizenship), because, well, I married a local and with this never ending waves of covid I don't I can travel abroad ever again.

It's incredibly difficult to immigrate and often expensive to get the various visas and permission needed to just live/work/study in an area (as someone that's planning on doing a masters in Germany, but I have been offered a job in the UK by a friend's father that I ended up not being able to take since it wasn't in a skilled work category so no visa there lol). Other countries like the US make it extremely difficult to give up citizenship, mostly financial as it is Extremely Expensive to give up American Citizenship ($2350 to renounce and relinquish) probably to discourage people giving up their citizenships and leaving the US.

The Vatican has some funky rules about citizenship.

My Mother is From Benin and my father is from Togo( both west Africa). My mum grew up in Israel and my father moved to Canada when he was 19. So they have both a second citizenships from different country’s. They first meet each other in Brazil were I was born. Because Of my African background and the fact that my mother have the citizenship of Israel, I was Born with the citizenship of Togo, Benin, Canada, Israel and Brazil. When I was 2 years old my Parents moved to Germany because they both got great jobs here. I became also german citizen at my 18. birthday. So at the Moment i can name myself a citizen of 6 Nations but this journey is not over jet 😅. My girlfriend is coincidentally from Cape Verde 😂, so if I marry her that would be citizenship number 7 for me.

Thanks for reminding me of Nomad Capitalist. They have majorly dialed up their sleaz since I last looked.

this is crazy entertaining

This is starting to become video game achievements where your trying to Earn 'em all.

Passportmon! Gotta catch em all!

I like the new slides of texts that pop in and out

Cool video. I have dual citizenship since I was born in the US so automatically got that one and my mum is from England (we moved back here when I was 2 so I grew up in England). It wasn't one of those things where she went there to give birth to have an American kid, she lived and worked there for 20yrs before coming back. My dad is from Mexico so it would be great if I could also get Mexican citizenship but I think US & MX only allow dual, plus I wouldn't really have any use for it anyway. Just good to know that I could if I wanted to.

Why am I still awake for this? Lol

Yeah dual citizenship as a German over 18 is pretty much impossible except for a few exceptions of non EU countries. I could have had dual Austrian and German citizenship but as they're both EU countries when I turned 18 Id have had to give one up so I just stuck with one.

I'm Venezuelan by birth, Canadian by naturalization and I found this video amazing to watch. Emirati is one of the hardest citizenships to get as well as Japanese and Icelandic, apparently.

Interesting video! I think one over “which countries allow to relinquish the nationality and which doesn't” could be interesting.

I know a lady who was born in Latvia to Russian parents and she has the Latvian Non-Citizen Passport. Majority of Russian-Latvians have it. Hence why Russia is easy to travel to for Non-Citizens. 🇱🇻 🇷🇺

I'm a Latvian citizen, and I'm pretty sure military service isn't mandatory by any means. I'm 20 right now, and haven't served any of my life for the military.

I wanted to know this question for so long!

I know 2 people who wanted to visit the US during Christmas break a couple of years ago. One of them was from Korea who got her Visa to the US pretty quickly while the other one was from Vietnam and had to wait a bit longer (or something like that) for her visa. You can have a dual citizenship in Japan until you are 21. After 21, you will have to choice which one to keep and which one to loose.

I was born in the US, with a Canadian and an Italian parent, so I'm getting all three citizenships :D

I’m from Argentina and here’s very common to have double citizenship. Most of the time it’s Spanish or Italian. But you can find Polish and German too. We are kind of eurocentric and it’s consider some sort of a prestige badge. I have both the Italian and Argentine passport myself 😊

11:07 Cabo Verde's capital is called Praia, that translated is beach

Hello! Malaysian citizen here - some embassies are based in high-rise buildings/skyscrapers for security reasons. It’s safer to be in a building with other office spaces, in case there were to be an attack on the embassy. The Indian High Commission (I’m an Indian permanent resident) is in a office space like the British High Commision. There are some embassies and consulate offices with their own building. The United States Embassy is super nice, I had to go there during COVID to get my student visa.

as someone who lives in China I know people who lives here for more than 15 years, has kids and married with a Chinese person and still has to renew their spouse visa every two years, the worst thing ever

"Just to make sure the bombing stops". LoL!

Latvia hasn’t had mandatory military service since 2007.

omg as a cabo verdean i was so surprised when you mentioned us hahaha