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China has been very consistent. Chinese citizens must apply for immigration status and citizenship of other countries by lawful means including real documents. If their Canadian citizenship is obtained by unlawful means, China has the rights not to recognize the new citizenship. In addition, 玉江山 still has a bench warrant of arrest on him after he escaped from the jail.
This is the legal principle of "clean hand". I am afraid 玉江山 doesn't have too clean his hands.
Whether Celil got his Canadian citizenship by lawful means or not is not a judgment in the position of Chinese government. NATIONALITY LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA says, “Any Chinese national who has settled abroad and who has been naturalized as a foreign national or has acquired foreign nationality of his own free will shall automatically lose Chinese nationality”, which does not say if a foreign nationality was acquired by lawful or unlawful means. It didn’t or couldn’t mention the term of “lawful” or “unlawful means” because it is not up to Chinese government or Chinese legal system to judge, it is an issue in that foreign country. “Lawful” or “unlawful” can only be determined in the relevant legal system. That means the validity of a Canadian citizenship can only be determined in the Canada law system, not the Chinese government or its legal system; vice versa.
If Cecil illegally got Canadian citizenship, the interested party should challenge it in a Canadian citizenship court. Without a ruling from a Canadian citizenship court, Celil’s Canadian citizenship will remain valid, because it was issued by the authorized body of Canadian Citizenship Act. |