Although Portugal allows dual citizenship, some countries, such as Japan, do not.
However, since 2011, South Korea has allowed dual citizenship for some categories of persons.
Nevertheless, the government is open to the possibility of allowing dual citizenship if local and global circumstances demand so.
Although the constitution was altered to allow dual citizenship, the election laws were not.
An earlier draft of the law would have allowed dual citizenship as a general rule for foreigners' children born here.
Some would allow dual citizenship for those with foreign-born parents.
The Greens insist that the new law retain provisions allowing dual citizenship.
A number of nations have gone even further than India, allowing dual citizenship for emigrants.
However, it was not until 1998 that ethnic Chinese were allowed naturalized Indian citizenship.