How many passports can a Canadian citizen hold?

Question

More specifically can a Canadian citizen hold a Canadian, Israeli, and Polish passport (all three together)?

Answer 1

To clarify what dognhorsemom said: most dual Canadian-Israeli citizens are Israeli by birth or by the Law of Return (aliya). That does not count as naturalisation under Israeli law.

The issue of Canadian nationality -- and its possession or loss -- has been the subject of a number of court cases. You should not rely on a Web site other than those of the Canadian Government on this arcane subject, at least in respect of pre-1997 cases (see Benner v. Canada (Secretary of State), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 358 http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1997/1997rcs1-358/1997rcs1-358.html , applying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms). But then: before 1924 Native Americans were protegés, not citizens; and before 1922 an American woman who married an alien -- even if she did so within the USA and never left that country -- lost her US citizenship. The Cable Act fixed that.

Most states do not "recognize" dual nationality as a matter of law unless there is a treaty involved (Russia has, or at least negotiated, such treaties with a few CIS states). AFAIK, the major situation where one state will treat its own citizens as nationals of another state is that provided for under Appendix 2 of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement. This is because most Catholics in Northern Ireland present themselves as Irish citizens (which they also are) and most Protestants as British (which they also are). http://www.nio.gov.uk/the-agreement

Thus: if a person has the nationality of a state and also another nationality, with the exception above s/he will generally be treated as having only the nationality of the state in which s/he is located.

There are anomalies, and the Baltic states generally will forfeit a person's nationality if that person does not timely divest him/herself of another. But some states (Iran; one or two Latin American states) have no provision for renunciation. Also, there is a great deal of pragmatism: if Japan has a supposed "rule" prohibiting dual nationality, it certainly didn't apply it in the Kawakita case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakita_v._U.S. nor in that of Alberto Fujimori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori

In other cases, states may try to recognise the "dominant" or "effective" one of two or more nationalities; but the Micheletti case limits that within the EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=61990J0369

The Bancroft Agreements provided for automatic expatriation of certain American citizens with a connection to Prussia, the UK and some other European countries; and postwar agreements with the USSR and its satellites protected naturalised Americans who visited the country of former nationality as tourists. But no such treaty would seem relevant to the situation you've posited.

Answer 2

Maybe. Don't you love answers like that? It depends:

Canada recognizes dual citizenship, as long as the Canadian citizen in question acquired another citizenship after Feb 15, 1977. Before that date, they lost Canadian citizenship on acquiring another.

Naturalized Israeli citizens may not hold any other citizenship; Israel-born citizens may.

Poland does not recognize dual citizenship, but does not forbid it, either. Polish authorities will only recognize the Polish citizenship.

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Answer 4

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