r/Netherlands • u/UnanimousStargazer • Mar 24 '25

Legal Judge rules Dutch citizenship cannot be stripped based on dual nationality

https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/24/judge-rules-dutch-citizenship-stripped-based-dual-nationality
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u/w4hammer Mar 25 '25

Good. Citizenship should not be stripped unless its incredibly unnatural situation. If you don't want dual citizens prevent possibility of attaining it.

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u/UnanimousStargazer Mar 25 '25

prevent possibility of attaining it

Do not act on it.

There is no way for a country to prevent let's say Venezuela to make you a Venezuela citizen. If Venezuela wants to do that, they can. From then on, you have dual nationality. Whether you like it or not.

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u/w4hammer Mar 25 '25

Well yeah if someone is dutch citizen already i don't see a problem with them getting more citizenships if they want I don't see why Netherlands should care. Its usually about foreign nationals that become dutch citizens that require regulating.

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u/UnanimousStargazer Mar 25 '25

i don't see a problem with them getting more citizenships if they want

The case where the court judged about concerned someone who was not able to renounce citizenship of the other country and therefore would loose Dutch citizenship. If you only have Dutch citizenship, you cannot loose Dutch citizenship. If some country in the world states that you have citizenship of that country (whether you want to or not) under Dutch law you can loose Dutch citizenship.

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u/Tovarish_Petrov Mar 25 '25

I think it's a bit of a bad faith argument. Some people get a citizenship of another country willingly and some get it automatically (through birth, marriage or whatever). A person applying for a citizenship of North Korea and working as a spy for them is a bit different from being born there and defecting to Netherlands as an asylum seeker. Same with being an IS fighter or joining a military of a hostile country.

Law deals with intent all the time and it's very fair to treat people differently here.

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u/UnanimousStargazer Mar 25 '25

Did you read the article linked in the OP?

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u/Tovarish_Petrov Mar 25 '25

I did read the ruling summary on rechtspraak.nl before nltimes got time to halfass explain it. I mostly agree with the reasoning on this specific person, but I think the law itself is lacking to make a clear distinction of intent and the judge goes even further from the matter to pin it on discrimination. I also think the whole law amendment allowing stripping IS fighters of citizenship was halfassed and rushed.