Topic summary
Portuguese citizenship
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Portuguese nationality law.
Loss and resumption
Portuguese citizenship can be relinquished by making a declaration of renunciation, provided that the declarant already possesses another nationality. It cannot be involuntarily stripped by the government in any situation, and may not be renounced if loss of citizenship would make a person stateless. Under circumstances where birth records were forged to acquire Portuguese citizenship, the nullification of an affected individual's citizenship would not be treated as loss of that status, but that the individual had never acquired it from birth.