The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Have the writers missed an all important point where it concerns a person, non-Bahamian, applies for citizenship but they do not reside in The Bahamas that at 21 years they are bound to renounce their original citizenship in favour of Bahamian? We do not accept dual citizenship.

So the child born to a Bahamian male with a non-Bahamian woman can hold Bahamas citizenship until 21 years and after that by-jingo they have to decide to retain the citizenship of where they reside, not The Bahamas or become an alien in that country subject to all that country’s Immigration laws – where’s the equalisation here? You call this improvement?

The new Permanent Residency smart card, if it can be called that - a friend of mine, married to a Bahamian, told me as they had a new passport they had to obtain one of these cards but by jingo they were asked to pay $100 + $20 for the processing/card but when they were granted spousal permanent residency the law provided for them to pay $100.

Something is wrong here - why is Immigration charging these people a further $100 for something they already have and solely because Government decided, I believe not by law, that they will no longer stamp their passport to indicate the person has Permanent Residency?

Someone needs to tell Immigration that The Bahamas operates by laws not policies. I hope someone from Immigration will clear this up... I suspect double dipping.

W THOMPSON

Nassau,

March 5, 2016.