A Chinese national shall lose his Chinese nationality only upon application to the Immigration Department for changing his nationality.

Some delegations proposed retaining the reference to stateless persons in paragraph 1 (b) by adding the words or a stateless person usually resident in its territory .

(a) Verifying the vessel s right to fly its flag the vessel may be requested to give information on its nationality and the nationality of its crew, its port of departure and its destination

In some cases, other Governments could be concerned (transit countries country of origin of a transnational corporation).

In cases of multiple nationality, the State of nationality that was predominant at the time both of the injury and of the official presentation of the claim should be entitled to exercise diplomatic protection against another State of nationality of the person concerned.

Nationals who lost Colombian nationality when the previous Constitution was in force by reason of their acquisition of another nationality may have Colombian nationality restored by submitting an application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a consulate or governor apos s office, in which they state their wish to accept the Constitution and the laws of Colombia.

Article 8 provides that any person who applies for naturalisation as a Chinese national shall acquire Chinese nationality upon approval of his application. A person whose application for naturalisation as a Chinese national has been approved shall not retain foreign nationality.

(e) A list of members of the governing body of the organization and their countries of nationality

b) Article 20 stipulates that Indonesian citizenship of a husband will be shared by his foreign born wife through a legal union, except that this gain of citizenship would bestow on his wife bi nationality or the wife could make a written declaration to reject the gaining of Indonesian citizenship.

54. With regard to nationality in relation to State succession, his country strongly supported the thrust of the draft articles, which recognized the important human rights dimensions of nationality.

58. His delegation welcomed the balance struck by the Commission between respect for the will of the individual regarding the choice of nationality where he fulfilled the requirements for different nationalities, and respect for the right of States to set conditions on the attribution of nationality, particularly where they did not allow dual nationality, with the general object of avoiding cases of statelessness.

57. Mr. Borhan (Egypt) welcomed the submission by the Commission of a set of articles on the nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States only four years after inclusion of the topic in its agenda.

Recalling Executive Committee Conclusion No. 15, that decisions by States with regard to the granting of asylum shall be made without discrimination as to race, religion, political opinion or membership of a particular social group, nationality or country of origin and acknowledging in this context that integration potential should not be a criterion for granting asylum,

It was further noted that a concept such as predominant nationality could call into question the principle of the sovereign equality of States, since no criteria existed in international law to determine the predominance of one nationality over any other.

(e) A list of the members of the governing body of the organization and their country of nationality

Marriage to an alien or a change of nationality of one of the spouses during the marriage do not oblige the other spouse to change his or her nationality.

Each month, several thousand persons chose their citizenship Estonian or other.

The Committee, noting the information provided regarding the acquisition of nationality, is concerned that a Bahraini woman is unable to transmit her nationality to her child when she is married to a foreign national, and that a foreign man is unable to acquire Bahraini nationality in the same manner as a foreign woman.

Non Chinese permanent residents who wish to acquire Chinese nationality in order to stand for election to the Legislative Council may do so in accordance with the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China (NLPRC)8 and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region'.

A woman with Dutch nationality cannot be forced to relinquish her nationality if her spouse acquires another nationality.

39. Many countries provide consular support to migrants of their nationality and in this way come to learn about discriminatory practices.

Slovakia supported the principle of transmission of nationality as set out in the draft articles, the legal means that ought to be available to individuals seeking to acquire the nationality of a successor State and other relevant principles such as non discrimination, the right to a nationality, the prevention of statelessness and respect for the will of persons concerned, all of which had been applied in recent cases of succession.

The attribution of nationality in relation to the succession of States, as well as the acquisition of nationality following the exercise of an option, shall take effect on the date of such succession, if persons concerned would otherwise be stateless during the period between the date of the succession of States and such attribution or acquisition of nationality.

42. Article 18 (Other States) should be clarified, as it raised questions concerning the extent of freedom given to other States to determine questions of nationality.

Recalling that persons arbitrarily deprived of nationality are protected by international human rights and refugee law as well as instruments on statelessness, including, with respect to States parties, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol thereto,

(a) The claim is not brought in accordance with any applicable rule relating to the nationality of claims

The law gives women equal rights with men regarding the citizenship of their children and does not establish any impediments to citizenship based on sex.

Furthermore, article 20 of the Constitution stipulates that no national may be deprived of his or her nationality and that Nicaraguan nationality is not lost when a person acquires a different nationality.

Some of them, therefore, are stateless in their own country.

But government statisticians have long been studying the national origins of immigrants, and are permitted to indicate the previous nationality of people who have acquired French citizenship. Thus, there is a distinction between mentioning the original nationality, which is allowed, and mentioning ethnic and racial origins, which is not.

Consequently, a country of origin should desist from criticizing countries which offered humanitarian assistance to its refugees.

Unless she has rejected his citizenship, she becomes stateless.

(b) At least one of the two candidates shall have the nationality of the nominating State Party

(b) At least one of the two candidates shall have the nationality of the nominating State party.

Republic of Tajikistan law specifies that admission to Republic of Tajikistan citizenship is solely on the basis of petitions submitted by citizens of other States or by stateless persons.

5. He expressed his appreciation for the Commission s efforts to find a balance between the rights and interests of individuals and the sovereign competence of States to grant citizenship, and its efforts to avoid statelessness and guarantee continuity between different nationalities and recognize the right of each individual to choose a nationality, whilst avoiding concepts of the obligation to attribute nationality, particularly in order to safeguard minorities.

Children born to a marriage in which the parents hold different citizenships obtain that citizenship upon which the parents agree, and, if the laws of the country of residence or origin of the parents permit it, children can have both citizenships.

Prior into the entry into force of the 1991 Constitution, Colombian nationality was lost on the acquisition of the nationality of another country.

92. Finally, in most of the communications dealt with, it was possible to determine the name and, as appropriate, the country of origin of the transnational corporation involved.

A municipal policy that accords much attention to aliens and to their integration into German society

My delegation would like to mention some of them.

The right to a nationality had already been established, not only in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also in the conventions on nationality and statelessness.

There are however certain provisions that discriminate against women, in particular the fact that a legitimate child born of a Guinean father automatically acquires the father's nationality.

It has been learned indirectly that most of them were in fact released on condition that they returned to their countries of origin.

In one study, which we ran in Japantown, San Francisco, we brought seven to nine year old Anglo and Asian American children into the laboratory, and we divided them up into three groups.