On 2 September 2013 07:46, Paulo Colaco Dias <paul...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"My response serves to emphasize the fact that Goans born before 1961 are still Portuguese citizens today because they never lost citizenship rights according to Portugal." COMMENT: And you are absolutely right, Paulo. What surprised me was that Mervyn made that particular comment.I thought Mervyn (as a Canadian citizen) would have known that in many countries, a person remains a citizen until he renounces it. But then, it is possible that ALL individuals from the erstwhile UK colonies in Africa/China did not have full UK nationality. The following links provide procedures to renounce Canadian and US citizenship respectively http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/renounce.asp http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html The same wrt Portugal So, it is quite possible that Goa has been/still is being led by Portuguese citizens despite India having annexed it in 1961 jc
