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I totally agree with the person above. I think everyone has the right to keep their dual status if they want to. After all, they did not acquire these nationalities randomly but by actually by right, birth or otherwise fulfilling the criteria in both of the countries that they were able to get their citizenship from. I also feel that it is unfair to reason that people simple would want to give up their birth right (if like me they were born in their country of current citizenship and feel a kinship with that country and also have parents or family there), simply because they had to move abroad due to for example the job or study requirements of their spouse/partner. Even if you can conditionally, hold on to your original nationality while married to someone from the country you are emigrating to, it is stressful to keep having to think that your birth country might take your primary nationality away at any time. It also prevents you (as is the case for me) from taking on the nationality of my spouse, even though it severely limits my own job perspectives in the country we now reside in. More and more countries are having the demand of "citizenship" for higher level vacancies in government and public services. Just having a "permanent visa' is usually not enough. It would be a step forward if countries allowed their citizens to keep their dual status as long as they comply with the rules and regulations in either of the two countries when they reside there. Background checks on people's movements and affiliations are easier to track these days with emerging identity control technologies so it does not necessarily mean that a dual citizen will be a threat to national security. In case of the personal protection laws that should apply, it would probably have to depend in which of the countries the person is or was last living in when they need  consular assistance. In any case, I firmly believe that the Netherlands should at least consider not taking away citizenship from their nationals who were born and can prove that they were partly or fully raised (and/or studied) in the Netherlands itself.Especially if both of their parents were also Dutch at the time of their birth. This is the case in many countries that there is a "citizenship by right of birth" like: Italy, Greece, Spain, the USA, Australia, Brazil and many more and it is not taken away even if such a person acquires a second nationality. I also want to mention, that it is not clear what it means when they say "acquiring" the citizenship of one's spouse, as there is no such thing as "citizenship by conferral", which effectively means that if you take on another nationality, it can still be interpreted as "taking it on voluntarily". And as such, the Dutch government might still take your nationality away. So how do you prove that it was not "so called voluntary" but based on the nationality of your spouse? Very unclear. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hope that the dutch government can find some proper solutions to these issues.