I am a Spanish national who has been living for about 7 years in the
UK. I live with my partner who is British. I comply with all the
requirements to become a naturalised British citizen but I dont know
whether if I do so I will lose my Spanish nationality or I could keep
it and therefore have double nationality.
Thank you

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 24 Jul 2005 13:59 PDT

Hi dfons,

Please let me know if this sufficiently answers your question:

LOSS OF SPANISH NATIONALITY
HOW IS SPANISH NATIONALITY LOST?

"Spanish nationality is lost by emancipated people who while
habitually living abroad:
 - Voluntarily acquire another nationality
 - Exclusively use the foreign nationality they had before emancipation. 
Loss of nationality will be effective after a period of three years,
counting from the moment of acquisition of a foreign nationality or
emancipation of the Spanish one.
According to the above-mentioned, the acquisition of Latin American
nationalities does not cause the loss of the Spanish nationality by
origin. A standing act of renounce to Spanish nationality will have to
be put forward by the person concerned."

http://www.euhome.info/spain_citizenship.htm

Best regards,
Rainbow

Hi dfons,

I'm glad the information provided fully answers your question. 

Thank you Myoarin for confirming the information I posted.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Greetings Dfons,
I have just been checking on this matter relative to another EU country.
On a German language site I found that Spain is one of the EU
countries that does NOT have an agreement allowing dual citizenship
for Spaniards who become a citizen of another EU member country.  This
confirms Rainbow-ga's information.

Myoarin

Thank you Myorain-ga and Rainbow-ga. I think this fully answers my
question. I was aware that Spain had some agreements with Latin
America countries but unsure whether the situation was the same with
an EU country.
Best Regards

alfons

I believe that there is a possibility that you may be able to keep
your Spanish citizenship and also have British citizenship, if you
were to marry partner.

The key is that you lose your Spanish citizenship if you *voluntarily*
aquire citizenship of another country. This means if you activily seek
naturalisation. If however, you become a citizen of another country
*by default*, for example automatically gaining citizenship of the
other country by marrying a national of that country, then you will
not lose your Spanish citizenship.

note: I know that this applies to other countries that explicitly use
the word "voluntarily" in their conditions, but please check if this
is the case with Spain.