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Nationality Act — Article 14-3 (Orders to Choose Nationality for Persons with Multiple Nationalities)

국적법 제14조의3

(1) The Minister of Justice shall order a person with multiple nationalities who fails to choose one nationality within a period prescribed under Article 12 (1) or (2) to choose one nationality within one year.

(2) Where a person with multiple nationalities who has vowed his or her intention not to exercise his or her foreign nationality in the Republic of Korea under Article 10 (2), 13 (1) or the proviso of paragraph (2) of the same Article conducts any act evidently violating such intention, the Minister of Justice may order him or her to choose one nationality within six months.

(3) When a person who is ordered to choose one nationality under paragraph (1) or (2) intends to choose the nationality of the Republic of Korea, the person shall renounce his or her foreign nationality.

(4) A person who fails to follow an order even after being ordered to choose one nationality under paragraph (1) or (2) shall lose the nationality of the Republic of Korea at the time the specified period expires.

(5) Procedures for choosing nationality under paragraphs (1) and (2) and the types of acts evidently violating the vow under paragraph (2) shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.[This Article Newly Inserted on May 4, 2010][Moved from Article 14-2; previous Article 14-3 moved to Article 14-4 <Sep. 15, 2022>]

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