Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Ex-president's grandson apprehended at airport over drug use" video.
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@immealldayeveryday9425 I'm literally eligible. Why do people lie online when we have the internet. Also, I fricken researched it before.
- Fall of 2007, the Dual Citizenship campaign was launched when G.O.A.’L. started to research various nationality laws of countries where adoptees were sent.
- May 2008, G.O.A.’L. launched a worldwide petition and informed the Korean media, prompting the Ministry of Justice to work with G.O.A.’L. on the campaign.
- Summers of 2008 and 2009, the Ministry of Justice held two public hearings in which Dae-won Kim (former Secretary General of G.O.A.’L.) represented the Korean adoptee community.
- June 2009, the first draft of the new nationality law was presented.
November 2009, the revised law was submitted to the National Assembly, which was approved by the Legislative and Judiciary Committee.
- 22nd of April 2010, the law revision was passed by the plenary session of the National Assembly.
- 4th of May 2010, the law was officially proclaimed.
- 1st of January 2011, the law officially went into effect.
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@immealldayeveryday9425 And, for non-adoptees.
(Aug. 24, 2010) On May 4, 2010, the Ministry of Justice of South Korea promulgated the amended Nationality Act, which comes into full effect on January 1, 2011. By passing this amendment, South Korea, for the first time since its founding, has come to recognize permanent dual citizenship of its nationals who satisfy the eligibility requirements under the Act. The amended Act allows a person holding dual citizenship by birth (e.g., a child born to South Korean parents in the United States) to maintain both citizenships by submitting to the Minister of Justice a pledge that he or she will not exercise the non-Korean citizenship in South Korea. Prior to the amendment, a person was forced to choose one citizenship; failure to make a timely choice resulted in deprivation of Korean citizenship without notice. By submitting the same type of pledge, certain groups of foreign nationals may also acquire Korean citizenship while maintaining their original one. The groups include marriage migrants, foreigners of outstanding talent who are naturalized as Koreans, and those who have their Korean citizenship reinstated by meeting certain qualifications. (Nationality Act, Act No. 8892 (Mar. 14, 2008), last amended by Act No. 10275 (May 4, 2010).
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