Dual citizenship (Germany and US)?
Answer:
First, a permanent resident is not a citizen of the US, so you do not have to give up your German citizenship as a permanent resident. If you chose to apply for naturalization/ citizenship (after 3 years or more) you generally lose your German citizenship unless you apply for a permit to keep your German citizenship (called: BBG Beibehaltungsgenehmigung). This has to be done before you apply for citizenship. To get the BBG granted you need to prove 1. that you have continuing links to Germany, speak German etc And 2. that there is a reason why you need to obtain the US citizenship. I have just send of my BBG application after living in the US for 7 years, my reason is that as a scientist I do not qualify for certain grants and jobs because I am not a citizen, so this is considered a hardship.
You can read up about the BBG on the German KOnsulate homepage: http://germany.info/relaunch/info/consul...
There is also a great Yahoo Group called zweipaesse that talks about dual citizenship, immigration etc issues:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zweipaesse...
No, you can have both...
My husband is a permanent legal resident.He also is a Mexican citizen.You can have both...
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Interisting read on this topic:
http://answers.google.com/answers/thread...
You must give up your citizenship. There are a few exceptions to this rule, but it doesn't look like your's is one of those cases.
You may only have one, unless you were born in one country and both of your parents are from another country (Definition of dual citizenship)
In America it's perfectly acceptable to say that you're German if you're from it, even though you're technically American.
I am almost certain GERMANY does not recognize dual citizenship. And frankly, I agree with that. (I'm German by descent, by the way.)
to be a permanent resident has nothing to do with citizenship.
if you would later like to become an us citizen (after 5 y in the usa as an p.r. or 3 y in the usa if married to an usc )you could apply a "beibehaltungserklaerung" . then you have both (but you must explain why you have to keep your german citizenship).
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