Second Passport through Ancestral or Ethic Connection

Second Passports through Ancestral or Ethic Connection

Sometimes surprisingly easy and quick

Obtaining a passport on the basis of ancestry is a common route; having parents each with a different nationality will often enable a child to claim dual citizenship. This is common and widely understood.

However, what is worth noting here is that numerous countries have legislation which enables a second passport seeker to exploit a much farther ancestral connection than one that goes back just a generation or two. This is the case in countries as disparate as Latvia, Israel, Germany and Spain.

Some countries’ legislation takes the ancestral connection yet further. To give an example, those with indigenous Jewish connection may take up Israeli citizenship — this is not unusual. However, under certain circumstances, some can even become citizens of Germany or Spain — by taking advantage of legislation designed in response to the Holocaust and the Spanish Inquisition of the 15th century.

History throws up some fascinating opportunities if only you know where to look. There must be millions of people worldwide who could probably claim an instant second passport of one country or another on the basis of their origin alone — regardless of which country they call their own now.

It must be noted here that obtaining a second passport through ancestry is not in itself a route to lower taxation or other freedoms if your original nation still can hold claim over you.

For example, one Norman Dacey, author of “How To Avoid Probate”, chose to obtain Irish nationality on the basis that he could claim ancestry there.

Dacey duly moved to Ireland some years ago and declared himself an Irish citizen. The Internal Revenue Service of the United States however saw things differently and confiscated royalties even though Dacey had been outside of the USA and held an Irish passport. Formal renunciation of US citizenship at the US embassy quickly followed.

Passports by Discretion and unpublished programs – Second passport

 

Passports by Discretion and Unpublished Programs

Typically the best there is — if you can get it

We have available some very attractive citizenship program which make you eligible for passport, national ID and driving licence

Citizenship, passports and indeed honorary diplomatic appointments and diplomatic passports are often granted without the need for specific economic citizenship legislation. Many nations have provisions in their laws that allow the granting of citizenship by discretion or rather at the simple behest of a government ministry.

Even the United States and Great Britain routinely grant citizenship and passports to persons whom they believe may be of value and who will benefit the nation. The same is true of course for many other nations around the world. In these cases, each applicant is considered individually and not as part of any collective policy decision by a government. Knowing the right people to approach is of course vital.

This brings us to another class of second passport program that, in a way, is a combination of an economic citizenship scheme and the discretionary approach.

Such schemes seek to attract investors not through economic citizenship legislation as such, but rather via the discretionary approach described above. To qualify, an investment in a government-approved business is usually required. This, in turn, is considered to be of a sufficient “benefit for the nation” for the relevant government department to exercise its “discretion” and offer the investor an instant second passport.

These programs often contain confidentiality clauses and are made available to a handful of lawyers and other trusted specialists. Nations have increasingly chosen this approach at the advice of international tax lawyers who have noted that it is in the mutual interest of the applicants and the nations alike.