Thousands of turkish-austrian dual citizens , are at risk of losing Austrian citizenship, as Austria does not permit dual citizenship for naturalized citizens.
In Austria, it is illegal for citizens to hold another foreign citizenship with another other nation without express permission — which is rare.
These people should not, after being Austrian citizens, have taken back Turkish citizenship without permission,” said the director of the Vienna City Administration Department Werner Sedlak, who deals with many cases as so many Turkish origin individuals live in the Austrian capital.
As many as 100,000 turkish immigrants are at risk of losing Austrian citizenship.
70 Turkish citizens have been notified of their Austrian citizenship being revoked in line with long-standing Austrian law.
Vienna alone having 18,000 cases to investigate, the decisions on whether or not to revoke citizenship
According to Austrian Embassy in Los Angeles
In general, the Austrian Nationality Act does not allow dual citizenship except for persons who obtain automatically two citizenships at the time they were born. Thus, if you acquire US citizenship through naturalization, you lose automatically your Austrian citizenship. The only exception is if you apply for permission to maintain Austrian citizenship. This permission must be granted before you submit the application to become a US citizen.
A person shall be permitted to maintain Austrian citizenship
- if the maintenance is in the interest of the Republic of Austria, or
- if personal reasons are worth considering (the law does not provide for examples of specific reasons that are worth considering but one may think of older relatives living in Austria, career prospects, reasons related to property issues etc.).
Only born Austrians may make use of this legal provision stated under b).
Source: breitbart.com
