> around 8,000 of the people who live in Monaco are Monegasque citizens
I have the luck of being friends with one of the precious few citizens of Monaco, who chose to leave in BC. There are fun trivia about citizenship in such a small city-nation, especially abroad. First of which is that the Monegasque consul to Canada is not Monegasque himself, and has very, very few citizens to tend to (by cheer luck it turns out I also know that person's son! ). When my friend needed to renew his passport, he just called the consul, who told him "oh, I need to figure out how to get you one", which process was effectively more or less having my friend to drop an email to the person in Monaco who prints passports. Same thing when he got kids.
We went to the US together once, and had to get through immigration because as a Monegasque he can't get dual citizenship. The immigration agent kept us longer, asking all sorts of questions because that was the first time he saw a passport.
Interestingly his kids can have both citizenships, his wife could technically acquire it but it would be subject to remaining married with him and thus she would be allowed to keep her citizenship in case they would ever divorce.
He can get a French id card and a French passport and work in France without a visa, but can't vote in the French presidential elections.
I have the luck of being friends with one of the precious few citizens of Monaco, who chose to leave in BC. There are fun trivia about citizenship in such a small city-nation, especially abroad. First of which is that the Monegasque consul to Canada is not Monegasque himself, and has very, very few citizens to tend to (by cheer luck it turns out I also know that person's son! ). When my friend needed to renew his passport, he just called the consul, who told him "oh, I need to figure out how to get you one", which process was effectively more or less having my friend to drop an email to the person in Monaco who prints passports. Same thing when he got kids.
We went to the US together once, and had to get through immigration because as a Monegasque he can't get dual citizenship. The immigration agent kept us longer, asking all sorts of questions because that was the first time he saw a passport.
Interestingly his kids can have both citizenships, his wife could technically acquire it but it would be subject to remaining married with him and thus she would be allowed to keep her citizenship in case they would ever divorce.
He can get a French id card and a French passport and work in France without a visa, but can't vote in the French presidential elections.