Dokument #1228782
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Please find attached a copy of the section
of the Constitution of Guatemala entitled "Nationality and
Citizenship." The document states that "no native Guatemalan may be
deprived of his citizenship" and adds that "citizenship may be
suspended, lost, and retrieved in accordance with the provisions of
the law" (Blaustein and Flanz 1986, 60-61).
An information officer of the Consulate of
Guatemala in Washington, D.C., stated that the current law
governing nationality and citizenship is the Constitution, pointing
out that citizenship is lost by acquiring a second nationality or
citizenship (20 Feb. 1992). The information officer added that it
is the duty of Guatemalan citizens outside Guatemala to renew their
travel documents when these expire, although failing to renew them
does not entail the loss of Guatemalan citizenship
(Ibid.).
Additional and/or corroborating information
could not be found among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC.
Blaustein, Albert P. and Gisbert H.
Flanz, eds. 1986. "Guatemala" in Constitutions of the Countries
of the World. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications.
Consulate of Guatemala, Washington, D.C.
20 February 1992. Telephone Interview with Information Officer.
Blaustein, Albert P. and Gisbert H.
Flanz, eds. 1986. "Guatemala" in Constitutions of the Countries
of the World. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications.