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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
[COLOR="blue"]Well, of course, I didn't post a fully worked idea as it's highly complex. When the Czechs and Slovaks split, people on either side had one year to choose their nationality. But that wasn't a problem in those days because dual-citizenship was not permitted in those countries at the time. The UK allows multiple-citizenship, so it'll require an ingenious scheme to get this right.
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On the contrary - in Czechoslovakia, people were either Czech or Slovak citizens from around 25 years before the eventual splitting of the country in two, so there was no controversy because nobody lost 'Czechoslovak' citizenship on the day of the split. There were arrangements after the split to allow people to apply for citizenship that they didn't have under certain conditions.
The better analogy is the Irish Free State, whose citizens remained British Subjects, as far as British and other Commonwealth governments were concerned, from 1922, and whose British citizenship status was properly resolved by Act of Parliament in 1949. Similarly, anyone with one Irish grandparent, from north or south, is automatically entitled to Irish citizenship, although they have to actively apply for it.