Can you be a citizen of more than one country?
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You can be a citizen of more than one country. For example like you were born in the U.S., and if one of your parents were Mexican Nationals you can acquired Mexican Nationality. There are countries that allowed this and others that do not. For example to be a Japanese Citizen you have to be born from at least one Japanese parent.
Nevertheless, the U.S. only recognizes one nationality, so if you are a U.S. Citizen you can not enter the U.S. presenting a passport from another country.
Apparently Mexicans can
I don't think you can have dual citizenship in the US. If you were moving to another country, you would just go through the naturalization of that country.
During naturalization in the US, you have to forsake any other country that you are from.
i'm pretty sure you can have both.
john s..not just mexicans. don't hate one just cause you can't be one.
No you can not, my dad is from india and he jsut switched to becoming a citizen so no. Sorry :(
You would still be an American citizen, and a citizen to India if you moved there and went through the process of becoming a citizen based on their standards. However, if you just married a guy from there, you wouldn't be one. If your parents are american citizens, and you are born in say australia, then you are citizen of both the US and Australia. Hope this helps.
Its called dual citizenship.
Yes
Yes you can. Many people do it. Although it may depend on the country though... my dad is a citizen of both Greece and he became a citizen of the US when he moved here. But like, if for some reason he decided to move back to Greece, he'd already have his citizanship and he'd be able to vote.
It depends very much under which conditions you get the second nationality.
Citizenship from one or another country depends very much upon which Legal current the constitution accepts:
Basically we have 2 better said 3:
a) ius-soli
You nationality depends from the place where you are born (soli=land)
b) ius-sanguini
Your nationality depends from your parents nationality (sanguini= blood) Example: Germany until recently
3.- both
Technically you end up with several nationalities, your father's, your mother's, your husband's and your own.
The origin of this two currents is basically on the question of how people get connection to their Land (from the late romans and common law)
Most of the countries accept one or another and many more both, that is why more and more people get more than one nationality, thus several passports.
1.- Hypothesis: Lets say if you marry an Indian Citizen and according to their Constitution "any person marrying an Indian Citizen becomes Indian, without having to apply for it.." yes you are able to maintain your USA citizenship.
2.- Hypothesis: if you apply for citizenship in a country you are tacitly rejecting or giving up you citizenship of origin.
3.- Hypothesis, cont from 2.- Unless -and this is a big unless and you have to be careful- the US has an agreement with the country were their -both- citizens can maintain their Citizenship without losing the original one!
(For example Germany and the US have such and agreement) However and this is why I write UNLESS in capital letters, you have to let your country of origin (in your case the US) know -before you apply for the second citizenship-, that you are applying for citizenship in X country and that you want to maintain the US citizenship..
4.- Hypothesis: One of your parents is a citizen from a country that recognizes children of nationals as nationals.
Other things you have to be careful about:
A) If you are an US citizen and enter this country with another passport (non-US) you are silently rejecting the US nationality, thus you risk loosing it. The same for any Country you hold a Passport for.
B) Additionally, you have to follow the Law of the country of which you are citizen -if you are in it-, thus you cannot defend yourself, lets say in India (Indian Husband example) saying that you are US citizen, as long as you have the Indian passport, which proves nationality (technically).
I would suggest the best and cheapest way (Lawyers charge fees) to get the most accurate and updated information is your Embassy (USA).
Sorry a little bit complicated but easy at the end.
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