Citizenship

[hotsoup]

"Clearly, United States citizenship is a privilege, Clinton said . It is not a right.

US is now going to charge a lot more for renouncing citizenship!

Is Thai citizenship a privilege, not a right?

What about you and your 'country'?

[jpinx]

The definition of what makes someone a citizen varies from country to country. A comparison would be mixing apples and pears

[Kwasaki]

Could you explain further OP on that, not really with you.

[Costas2008]

In my opinion, citizenship is a right to the natives of a country and a privilege to the foreigners that want to live in that country.

No country is obliged to grand somebody citizenship and I believe that those granted this privilege should be grateful to the country that accepted them.

Also foreigners should integrate in their new country, and not complain about the differences in religion, culture, way of living of the natives.

Also be prepared to offer their services and loyalty to the country that has accepted them.

Although that does not work always the right way.

A foreigner will always be considered a foreigner even if, he/she has been granted citizenship.

An example is the EU, that everybody was supposed to be a citizen of Europe and not the individual countries.

Has it worked?

No and I believe it will never work.

[Time Traveller]

States don't give rights to people. They do however take away the rights that people were born with. Never trust the word of a Clinton.

[paz]

An example is the EU, that everybody was supposed to be a citizen of Europe and not the individual countries.

Has it worked?

No and I believe it will never work.

There is no such thing as European citizenship, despite the printout on passport cover page

Each member country set their own law on matter of citizenship, regulation and immigration rules.

In terms of immigration the only "common laws" are about the right of any European to take residence and work in another member state, plus the common visa regulation that not even each country adopts.

[ubonjoe]

Not directly visa related. It also appears to be more political topic and is evolving that way with posts made already.

It is now