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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Naturalized citizen

Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English vol.
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Naturalized citizen  (NATURALIZED citizen)


Aliens may acquire the nationality of their country of residence by naturalization 1 and become naturalized citizens 2 of naturalized persons 2. In some countries certificates of naturalization 3 may be revoked 4 and naturalized persons will then suffer loss of nationality 5. Persons may occasionally have more than one nationality, and will then be said to possess dual nationality 6. A distinction is sometimes drawn between resident aliens 7, who habitually live in a country other than their own, and alien visitors 8 or visiting aliens 8, who are there only for relatively short periods. More...