question re filing RTD

[benko]

Hi all, I was hoping someone can help me with an answer.
I am filling out the RTD application form and one of the questions is 'country of citizenship'
I am presently a PR, derived from an eariler Asylee status.
After I left for good, I never visited the country from which I am from or obtained their passport so I don't know how to answer this 'country of citizenship' question. Am I technically still a citizen of that country? Though later in the application it asks whether the applicant obtained any sort of right in that country, which I of course haven't. I always travel on RTD but somehow this question was not in the application before.
Thanks for all your comments!

 

[thankful]

You are still citizen of your country. But you are of course not expected to have travelled there or renewed your national passport.

Hi all, I was hoping someone can help me with an answer.
I am filling out the RTD application form and one of the questions is 'country of citizenship'
I am presently a PR, derived from an eariler Asylee status.
After I left for good, I never visited the country from which I am from or obtained their passport so I don't know how to answer this 'country of citizenship' question. Am I technically still a citizen of that country? Though later in the application it asks whether the applicant obtained any sort of right in that country, which I of course haven't. I always travel on RTD but somehow this question was not in the application before.
Thanks for all your comments!

 

[LolaLi]

That is correct. You should list the name of the country that you are a citizen of - even if that is the country you claimed refuge from. For most of us, this is the country we are originally from.

For most countries, you are still a citizen until you formally renounce the citizenship (this is true even if after you are a US citizen). Some nations do not acknowledge dual citizenship - and you might automatically be renouncing your citizenship by becoming a US citizen. Yet, other countries refuse for their citizens to renounce their citizenship - whatever that means!