Report on Citizenship Law: Nepal 3.2. Loss of Nepalese citizenship 3.2.1 Voluntary renunciation Section 10 of the Nepal Citizenship Act deals with termination of Nepalese citizenship. It states that any citizen of Nepal who voluntarily acquires the citizenship of any foreign country shall automatically lose the citizenship of Nepal.68 Sub-section (3) states that a person eligible to acquire the citizenships of Nepal and a foreign country at the same time has to choose the citizenship of one of the countries within two years of reaching the age of 16, and failure to decide within two years will result in the person losing his eligibility to acquire the citizenship of Nepal.69 3.2.2 Resumption of Citizenship However, section 11 of the act states that a former Nepalese citizen who later acquired the citizenship of a foreign country can re-acquire Nepalese citizenship upon renunciation of the foreign citizenship.70 3.2.3. Other grounds for loss Submission of False Documents This provision states that a citizenship certificate acquired through submission of false documentation shall be revoked.71 Dual Citizenship The act states that a person may not acquire more than one citizenship certificate, apart from cases where the residency of a person has changed and the person seeks to acquire citizenship from the new residence. However, even to acquire this citizenship certificate the previous citizenship certificate must be withdrawn.72 Punishment Provision The punishment provision deals with punishments for acquiring citizenship through false representation or by providing false information. For foreign nationals who claim to be a Nepalese citizen through false representation, the punishment is imprisonment from one to five years or a fine of from fifty thousand rupees to one hundred thousand rupees or both.73 A person involved in the process of verification or recommendation related to a citizenship application by a foreign national based on false information shall be sentenced to imprisonment from six months to three years or fined from twenty thousand rupees to fifty thousand rupees or both.74 A person involved in falsifying or forging a Nepalese “citizenship 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 10(1). Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 10(3). Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 11. Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 12. Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 13. Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 21(1). Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006, sec. 21(2). RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2017/8 - © 2017 Author 13