Surrendering foreign passports during naturalization?
Even if they do not take passports at the interview, what does eventually happen to foreign passports? Will the USA want to do anything with them? It's not really their property (or even mine, they are property of those foreign governments) so I'd be a bit surprised if they did want to take them.
Answers with links to official information would be appreciated. I tried looking but the USCIS website is complicated.
Answer:
The foreign passports usually state that no other foreign country should confiscate your passport. However, when you go for naturalization, they normally take away your passport. You could ask them to allow you to keep it since it takes so long now to obtain an American passport and you might need it. If they do take it away from you, you can apply for another. Most countries allow dual citizenship which means you can travel on that country's passport or your new US passport. Go back to the USCIS web site and just read carefullly.
You will be allowed to keep your passport. The US has no issue with dual nationals. So you will be able to maintain citizenship and passports for both countries.
I dont know why you have to bring you foreign passport. My parents was interviewed in January and they didnt ask for their foreign passport.
My guess would be that they just want to see them so that they have some sort of official documentation issued by those countries saying that you were, at one time, a citizen capable of getting a passport. In other words, you don't have some sort of criminal record there or they (probably) wouldn't have issued you a passport. Plus they may want to make sure that all the information on each passport is the same.
I highly doubt that you will have to surrender the passports. As far as I'm aware, the U.S. does not make you give up citizenship of any other country when you gain U.S. citizenship. You're still free to be a citizen of any country you previously were and, as such, you should still be able to retain any documentation such as a passport from the other country.
I'd provide links to official government websites but I doubt I could find anything useful on them. As I'm sure you've found out by applying for citizenship, the government is not exactly good at giving clear information about things.
Good luck!
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